Why True Entrepreneurs Go Down 'and Still Come Back Fighting'

Knowledge @Wharton, Contributor, Forbes
Fri, 11/21/2014 - 8:29am

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on November 17, 2014. In a new book, Barefoot to Billionaire: Reflections on a Life’s Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer, Jon Huntsman, Sr., shares the story of the successful founding of the Huntsman Corporation, a petrochemical manufacturing company that generates more than [...]

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