BL Gruppo was a holding company that operates eight wildly famous and appreciated restaurants and catering, in Boston, Massachusetts. His culinary mini-empire constantly achieved recognition as a great organization. But history BL Gruppo was actually two stories, two business trips. One of them was the way Barbara Lynch, high school dropout, which due attention to the hard work, self-education, perseverance and entrepreneurial become a world-class chef. Another journey who have no formal training business, which is based culinary business employs more than 230 people and grossing nearly $ 18 million in revenue. Lynch is now facing, it is considered one of its greatest challenges: How can she institutionalize its business to support the implementation of expected her regular customers and opportunities to advance its loyal employees, and at the same time giving her management team and she will fall monetization and create wealth? And how important it is: Should she keep her direct entrepreneurial zeal for trying new business opportunities? ? "Hide
by Edward D. Hess Source: Darden School of Business 12 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 2012. Prod. #: UV5342-PDF-ENG
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