# Prof. George Smith on Alcoa Inc.'s growth

1 Faculty News April 8, 2013 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-08/alcoa-no-better-than-coin-flip-as-market-bellwether-status-fades.html) -- "Alcoa grew at the beginning of the 20th century to dominate U.S. industry as an integrated monopolist alongside John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and Andrew Carnegie’s U.S. Steel Corporation, according to [George David Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/george-smith), a professor of business history at New York University’s Stern School of Business who has consulted for Alcoa."

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