Brand new: how entrepreneurs earned consumers trust from Wedgwood to Dell

Business historian Nancy F. Koehn begins Brand New -- her critically acclaimed examination of the means by which six aspiring entrepreneurs created viable and enduring products -- with the story of Josiah Wedgewood, the 18th-century potter whose name, after two centuries, is still synonymous with finely made china. Koehn also considers the achievements of H. J. Heinz (food production), Marshall…