Foreword ixAcknowledgments xiiiPart One The Beginning 1One The House on Dover Road, 1898-1919 3Two Lessons Learned, 1919-1925 19Three Mackubin, Goodrich & Co., 1925-1927 29Four The Great Bull Market and the Crash, 1927-1929 43Five After the Crash, 1930-1937 53Part Two His Own Boss 65Six Birth of T. Rowe Price and Associates, 1937 67Seven "Change: The Investor's Only Certainty" 79Eight The Firm's Adolescence and World War II, 1938-1942 87Nine The Growth Stock Philosophy 97Ten Postwar Era, 1945-1950 109Part Three The Sage of Baltimore 121Eleven New Opportunities: Mutual Funds, Pension Plans, and the Launch of the Growth Stock Fund, 1950-1960 123Twelve Transitions, 1960-1968 139Thirteen The United States Enters a New Era, 1965-1971 151Fourteen Dark New Era, 1971-1982 163Fifteen The Grin Disappears, 1972-1983 175Part Four Market Analyses 195Sixteen Investing for the Decade, 2017-2027 197Seventeen Weak Performance of the Growth Stock Fund, 1970s 207Epilogue: The T. Rowe Price Today 213Sources 233Index 241
CORNELIUS C. BOND joined T. Rowe Price as a technology analyst, rising quickly to become a member of the Investment Committee and an officer of the New Horizons Fund, which became the best performing mutual fund in the country. He spent almost ten years working directly with Thomas Rowe Price, Jr., and later became president of the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund. He left to become the fourth general partner of New Enterprise Associates, which today is one of the largest venture capital firms in the country. Bond lives with his wife, Ann, and his standard poodle, Price, in San Francisco.