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- catalog abstract "In an eye-opening collection of real-life stories, Aiming Higher profiles courageous CEOs, managers, and employees who view social challenges not as burdens but as opportunities - to create new markets, build motivated work forces, and attract loyal customers. They are aiming higher. Who are these business heroes and heroines? Each year, The Business Enterprise Trust - founded by television writer and producer Norman Lear - honors five companies or individuals who have. Shown breakthrough leadership in combining sound business management with social conscience. Aiming Higher presents the stories of 25 of these honorees. These inspiring narratives illuminate the complicated, gritty management challenges being met and overcome by public-spirited businesspeople. The stories are about all kinds and sizes of businesses, ranging from Xerox to Vermont National Bank to the White Dog Cafe. These compelling profile include a local school bus. Company that has become a powerful engine for personal growth, new jobs, and economic revitalization in a troubled inner-city neighborhood; a small travel agency that has grown to be the third-largest agency in the world by making employee satisfaction a top priority; a stock photography agency that has become a pacesetter by promoting the use of non-stereotyped, "real-life" images of women, minorities, and people with disabilities; and a bank that initiated a lending. Program for low-income customers. Thousands of people can now own homes - and the bank has become one of the most profitable savings and loans in the country.".
- catalog alternative "25 stories of how companies prosper by combining sound management and social vision".
- catalog alternative "Twenty-five stories of how companies prosper by combining sound management and social vision".
- catalog contributor b10167128.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Company that has become a powerful engine for personal growth, new jobs, and economic revitalization in a troubled inner-city neighborhood; a small travel agency that has grown to be the third-largest agency in the world by making employee satisfaction a top priority; a stock photography agency that has become a pacesetter by promoting the use of non-stereotyped, "real-life" images of women, minorities, and people with disabilities; and a bank that initiated a lending.".
- catalog description "In an eye-opening collection of real-life stories, Aiming Higher profiles courageous CEOs, managers, and employees who view social challenges not as burdens but as opportunities - to create new markets, build motivated work forces, and attract loyal customers. They are aiming higher. Who are these business heroes and heroines? Each year, The Business Enterprise Trust - founded by television writer and producer Norman Lear - honors five companies or individuals who have.".
- catalog description "Julia Stasch of Stein & Company : fighting gender barriers in Chicago construction -- Barbara B. Roberts and FPG International : the power of the image -- DAKA International : coping with AIDS in the workplace -- Jack Stack and the Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation : when workers play the numbers game -- Rick Surpin and Cooperative Home Care Associates : up from welfare and into the boardroom -- Hal Rosenbluth and Rosenbluth International : putting the customer second--and the employee first -- Howard Schultz and the Starbucks Coffee Company : employees as partners in growth -- The work/life programs of Fel-Pro, Incorporated : portrait of a family-friendly workplace -- Judy Wicks and the White Dog Cafe : table for six billion, please! -- Gail Mayville of Ben & Jerry's Homemade : going green at the Vermont ice cream machine -- GE Plastics' "share to gain" program : building corporate loyalty while rebuildin".
- catalog description "Library Journal Best Books".
- catalog description "Program for low-income customers. Thousands of people can now own homes - and the bank has become one of the most profitable savings and loans in the country.".
- catalog description "Shown breakthrough leadership in combining sound business management with social conscience. Aiming Higher presents the stories of 25 of these honorees. These inspiring narratives illuminate the complicated, gritty management challenges being met and overcome by public-spirited businesspeople. The stories are about all kinds and sizes of businesses, ranging from Xerox to Vermont National Bank to the White Dog Cafe. These compelling profile include a local school bus.".
- catalog description "Vermont National Bank's socially responsible banking fund : the rich rewards of community lending -- Gun Denhart and Hanna Andersson : recycling clothes while building customer loyalty -- Prudential Insurance's living needs benefits : death benefits for the living -- Mario J. Antoci and American Savings Bank : cultivating the American dream -- Finast Supermarkets : the ultimate neighborhood market -- Rachel Hubka and Rachel's Bus Company : the little school bus company that could -- Lou Krouse and the National Payments Network : a creative alternative for the "unbanked" -- Equal opportunity at Inland Steel : how five managers transformed a corporate culture.".
- catalog extent "x, 374 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0814403190 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Amacom,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "658.4/08 20".
- catalog subject "HD60.5.U5 B65 1996".
- catalog subject "Management Moral and ethical aspects United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Social responsibility of business United States Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Julia Stasch of Stein & Company : fighting gender barriers in Chicago construction -- Barbara B. Roberts and FPG International : the power of the image -- DAKA International : coping with AIDS in the workplace -- Jack Stack and the Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation : when workers play the numbers game -- Rick Surpin and Cooperative Home Care Associates : up from welfare and into the boardroom -- Hal Rosenbluth and Rosenbluth International : putting the customer second--and the employee first -- Howard Schultz and the Starbucks Coffee Company : employees as partners in growth -- The work/life programs of Fel-Pro, Incorporated : portrait of a family-friendly workplace -- Judy Wicks and the White Dog Cafe : table for six billion, please! -- Gail Mayville of Ben & Jerry's Homemade : going green at the Vermont ice cream machine -- GE Plastics' "share to gain" program : building corporate loyalty while rebuildin".
- catalog tableOfContents "Vermont National Bank's socially responsible banking fund : the rich rewards of community lending -- Gun Denhart and Hanna Andersson : recycling clothes while building customer loyalty -- Prudential Insurance's living needs benefits : death benefits for the living -- Mario J. Antoci and American Savings Bank : cultivating the American dream -- Finast Supermarkets : the ultimate neighborhood market -- Rachel Hubka and Rachel's Bus Company : the little school bus company that could -- Lou Krouse and the National Payments Network : a creative alternative for the "unbanked" -- Equal opportunity at Inland Steel : how five managers transformed a corporate culture.".
- catalog title "25 stories of how companies prosper by combining sound management and social vision".
- catalog title "Aiming higher : 25 stories of how companies prosper by combining sound management and social vision / David Bollier.".
- catalog title "Twenty-five stories of how companies prosper by combining sound management and social vision".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".