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Author Sparks, Edith, author

Title Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century / Edith Sparks
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series 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.
Contents Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth
Summary " ... 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lewis, Tillie, 1896-1977.
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993.
Rudkin, Margaret
SUBJECT Rudkin, Margaret
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993
Lewis, Tillie, 1904-1977
Lewis, Tillie, 1896-1977 fast
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993 fast
Rudkin, Margaret fast
Subject Women-owned business enterprises -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women executives -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
Businesswomen -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Businesswomen
Women executives
Women-owned business enterprises
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016050513
ISBN 9781469633039
1469633035
9781469633046
1469633043