Barefoot to billionaire reflections on a life's work and a promise to cure cancer
The billionaire entrepreneur and father of a former governor revisits key moments in his life that shaped his views on faith, family, and the responsibilities of wealth, describing his and his wife's commitment to donate their fortune to cancer research.
| Main Author: | Huntsman, Jon M. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Overlook Duckworth,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
The billionaire entrepreneur and father of a former governor revisits key moments in his life that shaped his views on faith, family, and the responsibilities of wealth, describing his and his wife's commitment to donate their fortune to cancer research. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. |
| Physical Description: |
448 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781468309324 (hardback) 1468309323 (hardback) |
| Author Notes: |
Jon Meade Huntsman, Sr was born on June 21, 1937 in Idaho. He is a businessman who founded the Huntsman Chemical Corporation which is the largest manufacturer of polystyrene in the U. S. Huntsman plastics are used in several everyday products such as:McDonald's clamshell burger containers and L'eggs pantyhose egg shells. Huntsman's philanthropic giving exceeds $1.2 billion, focusing on the areas of cancer research through programs at various universities. Huntsman was recruited by Harold Zellerbach, chairman of Crown-Zellerbach Paper Company, to attend the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on a Zellerbach scholarship.He graduated from Wharton in 1959. He later earned his MBA from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. His leadership in the company, Olson Brothers Inc., was key in developing the first plastic egg carton. He soon established contact with the Dow Chemical Co. where he became president of a joint venture between Olson Brothers, Inc., and Dow Chemical. He soon saw an opportunity to create packaging for the fast-food industry. Huntsman left Dolco in 1970 to form the Huntsman Container Corporation. In 1982 Jon Huntsman founded a new company, Huntsman Chemical Corporation, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2014 Jon Huntsman's book Barefoot to Billionaire:Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) |