Book ID: CBB807958462

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century (2017)

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Sparks, Edith (Author)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: xiv+309; photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Language: English

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. (Worldcat)

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Review Mark H. Rose (Spring 2018) Review of "Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century". Business History Review (pp. 210-213). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Davis, Joshua Clark
Schmiesing, Kevin E.
Berlin, Leslie
James W. Hanscom
Asay, Jeff S.
Anschutz, Philip
Concepts
Business history
Business enterprises
Businesspeople
Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
Biographies
Technological innovation
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Western states (U.S.)
Germany
Institutions
McDonald's Corporation
Hobby Lobby (Firm)
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch-Shell - firm)
William Sellers
J.C. Penney Co.
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