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Minority entrepreneurs rediscover Booker T. Washington
From: Human Events
Date: 19980306
Author:Hager, Daniel
After Steve Mariotti received his M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan School of Business in 1977, he joined the Ford Motor Company. But he yearned to be an entrepreneur, so he left Ford, moved to New York City and started an import-export business.
His life changed when he was mugged. He decided to confront directly the worst of inner-city life and became a teacher. The effort verged on disaster as his students channeled their energies into challenging authority. But their attitudes changed when he taught them how to start their own businesses. Suddenly they had an incentive to ...
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