Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century (2017)
Sparks, Edith (Author)
University of North Carolina Press
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)
...MoreReview 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).
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