Earl Blanks is a former owner of a Party City franchise. Prior to his involvement with Party City, Blanks had started a small consulting business, the Small Business Marketing Planning Center, which provided marketing consulting services to smaller companies that generated $3-5 M per year in sales. Prior to that experience, Blanks worked at Procter & Gamble for over 7 years. Earl Blanks received his undergraduate degree from University of Arkansas and his MBA from Cornell University.
What we're going to do here today is talk about from employee, to entrepreneurship. Then economic development. What this does is sort of parallels my career since I left Cornell about 30 years ago. And I went to work with Procter & Gamble, a Fortune 500 company in the brand management area. ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Earl Blanks Provides Background For Lecture on Economic Development From Employee to Entrepreneur
Earl Blanks States Importance of Understanding Mega Trends and Identifying Opportunities
