Kirby's Way : How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built Their Company on Kitchen-Table Values /
The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself "a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash." He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana exuded philanthropy and free enterprise. Like a sheepdog, he tended the flock, rounded up strays, darted to key places to c...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, IN :
Purdue University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; From the Banks of the Wabash; Common Denominator; Girl from Oat Fields; Kirby's Charge; World's Fair Wedding; Off to Work They Go; Florida Circus; Surplus Man; When Prefab Was Fab; Camp Kirby; God in Us; Open-Door Policy; Just Desserts; Wedded Bliss; Junior Achievement; Taking Risks; New Directions; Building; Distance Run; Without the Gentleman; Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.