Word: entrepreneur
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...Alan Soh, a thirtysomething entrepreneur who runs his own six-person interior design firm, says his firm is coping too despite being closely tied to the recession-wracked construction industry. By temporarily switching his focus to aging buildings, where the volume is lower and margins are thinner, "I've managed to keep our business going," he says. Soh is guardedly optimistic about the future. "There are eight to nine thousand new [apartment] units being finished off this year and they're all going to need lighting fixtures and painting work," he says, which is one reason why he hasn?...
...across all its language programs. This technique downplays the cultural idiosyncrasies of each specific language. "They just throw it out there at the student," says Mark Kaiser, associate director of the Berkeley Language Center. "They fail to present language as a representation of that language's culture." Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss, a regular language acquisition blogger who has become fluent in Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese, is quick to credit Rosetta Stone for engaging more people in language learning. However, Ferriss argues that by shunning grammar and exercises leveraging one's native language, Rosetta Stone slows the learning process...
...kind of reacted against that, that the music had gotten too commercial and lost its punk roots,” says Peter F. Rojas ’97, now an internet entrepreneur who helped create both Engadget and the independent-minded RCRD LBL. “We were more interested in bands that weren’t trying to cross over from college rock...
Richard Branson The media mogul and entrepreneur is the CEO of Virgin Group and a past TIME 100 honoree James Lovelock developed an instrument that helped decipher the role of chlorofluorocarbons in the depletion of the ozone layer. His Gaia theory of how our planet works has real applicability in the battle for our survival in a rapidly changing climate...
...History of Art and Architecture degree may not, at first glance, seem useful to an entrepreneur. But when former art history concentrator Ben M. Sack ’07, now director of the consulting firm Boylston Technology Group, was thinking about how to pitch a strange-sounding brand of French wool, what came to mind immediately was his senior thesis on Picasso and semantics, which helped him craft a visual pun for the brand...