H. K. Ball is a mechanical engineer from Rice University with a Harvard MBA ... in business as H K Ball and Associates since 1968, has generated hundreds of business plans for all kinds of industrial, retail and service companies. Each plan considers products, engineering, financial needs, physical facilities, human resource skills, but with an emphasis on competitors and market share factors. He has worked extensively in Europe, Africa, Central America and Australia. HK has done a lot of programming, first in Fortran, then various Basic's, Visual Basic 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, ActiveX, now intensively in VB.NET, and C# using COM, DCOM PALM, and internet related technologies. Programs are largely graphic front ends for performance measurement, market share planning and human resource management.

BA Liberal Arts 1954 and BS Mechanical Engineering Rice University 1955, MBA Harvard Business School 1958

Coca Cola (food), British American Tobacco Company (London,food), QuikTrip(retail), Dixie Lime and Stone (mining and mfg), Kem Manufactiring (chem mfg), Temple Enterprises (food and mfg), The Phillips Agency (advertising), Ivy Steel and Wire (steel mfg), Government of Portugal (food), Government of Sudan (food), Mark Inns (motels), Southern Paint (mfg), Duke Enterprises (real estate), Lang Engineering (food), BAT London and Central America (food, tobacco), Kem Central America (chem mfg), Protestant Radio Television (media), Burton Block and Concrete (mfg), Stone and Newman (medical), MiniCinemas Inc (movie theatres), Graphic Sales, Inc (publishing), Ex-Ar Inc (chem mfg), Meadows Steel (mfg), Ivory Coast Government(food), West African Tuna (food), Ray Wright, Inc (realestate), MobileHome Parks of America(realestate), Davidson Meadows (mining)

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R W Temple - Temple Enterprises ... Norman Pyle - Pastor ... Dr William C. Hathcock - Physician ... Don Hall - Consultant