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Lots of sportswear companies??base their image on the classic all-American look (think Ralph Lauren and J. Crew), but only Brooks Brothers has the heritage to back up that blue-blooded claim. The firm's first store, then known as H. & D.H. Brooks & Co., was opened by Henry Sands Brooks in New York City 188 years ago. The retailer quickly became the place to go for off-the-rack suits, an early version of ready-to-wear. In 1850, when Brooks' sons took over the family business, they changed the name to Brooks Brothers, with the Golden Fleece...
...sport their product. (He eventually won four gold medals wearing Dassler shoes.) Business boomed, and by the start of World War II, the Dasslers were producing 200,000 pairs of shoes a year. But success brought problems, and the brothers feuded, splitting in 1948 to create two separate companies???Rudi incorporating his as Puma and Adi opening a new factory across town and starting a rival shoe company called Adidas...
Friends wonder if Diego will one day go into politics. He sits on the board of a number of companies???including Ferrari, Maserati, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and LVMH (which owns a 3.5% stake in Tod's)?but insists that shoemaking is his only work interest. "My job is to touch leather and create brands," he says. "And then more time for my family...
...when most of Wall Street is winding down, Walter Zimmermann begins a high-stakes, high-wire act conducted live before a paying audience. About 200 institutional investors?including airlines and oil companies???shell out up to $3,000 a month to catch his daily webcast on the volatile energy markets, a performance that can move hundreds of millions of dollars. "I'm not paid to be wrong?I can tell you that," Zimmermann says. But as he clicks through dozens of screens and graphics on three computers, he's the picture of focused calm. Zimmermann, 54, watched most...
...Companies??reinvent themselves. Celebrities remake themselves habitually. So why not you? We sought out people who switched courses late in life to pursue a dream that had been on hold for too long. And we found a country full of inspiring stories: the commercial fisherman who now surfs three months a year, the business exec who becomes a sculptor and the teacher turned activist. Everyone's dreams are different--like the former pilot who swam the English Channel--but just the idea of a dream can be powerful and contagious. As Goethe said, "Whatever you can do or dream, begin...