HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Olivier P. Roche and Frank Shipper

Chapter Chapter 11 in Shared Entrepreneurship, 2014, pp 209-230 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract HCSS (Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc.) was founded in 1986. For the first few years, the company’s office was in the home of its founder and president, Mike Rydin. Mike had previously worked in the estimating department of a large heavy construction company where he understood, firsthand, the importance of bidding and time crunches.2 He decided to address this critical issue. Within a few years he hired his first employee, a programmer named Carl, and they created a software package, the DOS version of HeavyBid. This estimating software was made for infrastructure contractors who bid on projects ranging from $50,000 to over $1 billion. A key feature this young company offered was 24/7 product support; this was unusual at the time. Many times calls for help came in the middle of the night and were responded to by the president himself. Today HCSS still offers 24/7 instant support, now to over 3,500 companies.

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Chief Executive Officer; Marketing Director; Profit Sharing; Estimate Software (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137405807_12

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