'It's Not about Iron, It's about People'

摘要

In the late 1980s, Michael M. McCarthy, the fourth-generation owner of privately held McCarthy Building Companies, came to the somewhat melancholy conclusion that there would not be a fifth-generation McCarthy running the firm. The easy option: sell out to foreign interests, which would have paid handsomely for a business that today generates $1.98 billion in annual revenues. But McCarthy didn't think that was fair to the firm's 2,500 full-time employees and trades people. Besides, that just wasn't the way the McCarthys treated their extended family.