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Thursday, November 28, 2002 at 11:00 AM EST
Enterprising Women (Rebroadcast)
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Two hundred and fifty years of women on top.
They printed the Declaration of Independence and published the Pentagon Papers. They cultivated cash crops and brought cosmetics to market. They were pioneers of must-have party dresses, and life-saving pyrotechnics. They gave us Barbie, and they became billionaires. Enterprising women are still at it, and in record numbers.

Tonight On Point: The long history and colorful characters of America’s enterprising women.

Guests:

Virginia Drachman, Stern professor of American history, Tufts University , and project historian for
Enteprising Women: 250 Years of American Business

Nancy Koehn, professor, Harvard Business School, and author, “Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell”

Jean Hoffman, president and CEO, Newport Strategies, Inc.,

Amity Shlaes, On Point news analyst and columnist, the Financial Times newspaper

 
 

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