You Can Dress It a You Can Make It Whatever You Want It to Be

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You were president of palas shoe source, which was not a small organization. It's based havily some shoes on a shelf andound. I'm sure you worked a lot of hours every week to keep t cessful. And so i knew that thiss, i loved working for the may company. Great experienced and payloss was part of the may company at that time. So they prepared me for this. And i was ready togo do my own thing inh in the early days of being in retail.

Stuff it, fluff it, stitch it, dress it: Build-a-Bear Founder and former CEO Maxine Clark built a retail-entertainment empire by letting people make their own furry friends. Two hundred million of them. What's the secret to her success? Listen as she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts how she developed a customer-focused culture, why she sought to join (and not beat) her competition, and about some of the (seriously) strange things people have stuffed into their bears.