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Marcia Avis transformed her late father's Southfield, Mich., plastic-surgery practice into a medi-spa and increased revenues 40%, to $450,000, in 2003. She positioned her medi-spa as an affordable alternative to plastic surgery. "If a client can't afford a $9,000 face-lift, he or...
Despite the potential profits, there is little regulation of medi-spas. Guidelines mandated by the state and protocols for handling people in a medical environment exist, but for the most part, professional standards are lacking in the industry. For example, a medi-spa's skin-care products, which generate lots...
A few years later, Birdie is engaged to Earl Urquhart, a philandering suitor uniquely unfit to wed this wonderful woman. Just before the wedding, though, Earl rashly risks his bride in a poker game, and Finus wins her from him. Fate prevents Finus from collecting on his debt, and some...
After joining ailing AVIS RENT A CAR as CEO in late September, Siegel, 40, opted for an even bigger 9/11-related challenge: resuscitating US AIRWAYS, which lost a staggering $1 billion last quarter. As head of the sixth largest U.S. airline, he will try to repeat his success with CONTINENTAL's...
Still, tourism is one of the best motors of economic development for poor countries. The industry is astonishingly labor intensive. Every hotel needs cleaning staff and someone to mind the beach umbrellas. And those jobs don't require much education. Moreover, tourism offers a cheap crash course in entrepreneurship. The...