TY - BOOK AU - Sparks,Edith TI - Boss lady: how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century T2 - The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy SN - 9781469633039 AV - HD6054 .B677 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Lewis, Tillie, KW - Beech, Olive Ann, KW - Rudkin, Margaret. KW - Women-owned business enterprises KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Women executives KW - Biography KW - Businesswomen KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Constructing entrepreneurial pathways --; Government and women's business ownership --; Labor-management relations --; Gender as brand management --; Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth; 2; b N2 - " ... 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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1517675&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -