Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century /
Sparks, Edith,
Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century / Edith Sparks. - xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy . - Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.
Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth.
"... the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards"--
9781469633015 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781469633022 (pbk : alk. paper)
2016050513
Lewis, Tillie, 1904-1977.
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993.
Rudkin, Margaret.
Women-owned business enterprises--History--United States--20th century.
Women executives--History--United States--20th century--Biography.
Businesswomen--History--United States--20th century--Biography.
HD6054.4.U6 / S67 2017
338.092/520973
Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century / Edith Sparks. - xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy . - Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.
Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth.
"... the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards"--
9781469633015 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781469633022 (pbk : alk. paper)
2016050513
Lewis, Tillie, 1904-1977.
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993.
Rudkin, Margaret.
Women-owned business enterprises--History--United States--20th century.
Women executives--History--United States--20th century--Biography.
Businesswomen--History--United States--20th century--Biography.
HD6054.4.U6 / S67 2017
338.092/520973