Starting from scrap
"Stephen Greer arrived in Hong Kong in 1993, a recent college grad with no financing, scant experience, and only a notion of starting some kind of business. Fourteen years later, his company Hartwell Pacific was a $250-million enterprise and a player in the global scrap-metal recycling trade. Along the way he encountered cultural roadblocks, ruthless and sometime unscrupulous competitors, and learned critical lessons in what makes a young business thrive. This remarkable story is chronicled her…
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- Full title :Starting from scrap / Stephen H. Greer.
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"Stephen Greer arrived in Hong Kong in 1993, a recent college grad with no financing, scant experience, and only a notion of starting some kind of business. Fourteen years later, his company Hartwell Pacific was a $250-million enterprise and a player in the global scrap-metal recycling trade. Along the way he encountered cultural roadblocks, ruthless and sometime unscrupulous competitors, and learned critical lessons in what makes a young business thrive. This remarkable story is chronicled here with humor, suspense, and keen insights into the strategies that made Stephen Greer a highly successful entrepreneur."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Burford Books
- Place of Publication:Short Hills, NJ
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 245 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781580801607, 1580801609
- oclc:ocn437305936
- LC Classification:HD9975.H624
- Dewey Decimal:338.7/669042095125
Table of Contents
The lay of the land -- To do a common thing uncommonly well -- Hartwell Pacific is born -- Starting from scrap -- China 101 -- Hartwell hits its stride -- Branching out -- Stepping on a land mine and surviving -- The root of the tree -- The rebirth of Hartwell -- Joint ad-ventures -- A little cloak and dagger -- A quest for global domination -- Typhoon season -- Don't do business with friends unless you are prepared to lose them -- Fixing Malaysia -- Hartwell Pacific's Indonesian vacation -- Thank you, Mr. Bentley -- The school of hard knocks : another MBA -- Mr. and Mrs. Greer -- Young entrepreneur of the year -- Getting back on the growth track -- Hooking a marlin -- Negotiations get serious -- A walk in the park.
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