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Monday, 07 December 2009 10:37

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Gary Hoover, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship of the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Hoover is a master storyteller, business history enthusiast and entrepreneur. He is also the founder of Austin-based Bookstop, which grew to be the fourth largest bookstore chain in the nation before being acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1989.  He also founded Hoover’s, Inc., one of the world’s largest online providers of information about industries, companies and executives. The company went public in 1999 and was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2003. Hoover has served in numerous advisory positions in education and business, including a five-year stint on the board of directors at Whole Foods Market.

A free monthly evening “energized lecture” and discussion open to the public organized once per month on Wednesdays at the AT&T Center in Austin. 

5:30 p.m. Refreshments
6:00 p.m. Lecture and Discussion

 

Upcoming Presentations:

Wednesday January 27
Flying High: The creation and development of the modern airline industry by visionary pioneers

Wednesday February 24
Lessons from Detroit: What every technology leader can learn from the founders of the “Big Three” US automakers

Wednesday March 31
Ringing Registers: The story of American retailing and its innovators

For more information:

http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/speaker_series/ATT_Hoover_12_09.asp

We invite all of you to get a discussion going.  Please submit your comments at the end of this article, Thanks.


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