Word: entrepreneur
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...losing out to budget chains in the '90s, Topshop's managers decided to stop competing just on price. "The decision was made to create a fashion authority," says Mary Homer, a joint managing director of Topshop who's been at the retailer for 20 years. (Green, a retail entrepreneur with years of experience in various types of businesses, acquired Arcadia in 2002 and helped execute the strategy already under way.) The company now employs 22 of its own designers, up from about a dozen in 2002, and they aim to create new looks just as deftly as the designers...
...ability to move comfortably between the most esoteric realms of science and the practical challenges of building a program from the ground up,” Faust said in a statement on Friday. “Barbara has proved herself to be a leader, a manager, and an entrepreneur of particular vision and skill...
...outsider now within the Republican family; having attacked Bush, he'd be doomed in a G.O.P. primary. Hagel's only avenue, like Bloomberg's, would be a third-party bid. It doesn't hurt that Hagel happened to make millions of his own as a cellular phone entrepreneur before he won his Senate seat. There had already been some speculation that Bloomberg and Hagel might team up. Their dinner at the Palm Restaurant, a place to be seen by media power players, was clearly meant to fuel even more...
...with Barbara's creativity, drive, and ability to move comfortably between the most esoteric realms of science and the practical challenges of building a program from the ground up," Faust said in a statement on Friday. "Barbara has proved herself to be a leader, a manager, and an entrepreneur of particular vision and skill...
...about a Greek cruise? That's the appealing idea behind easyCruise, the latest brainchild of European serial entrepreneur Stelios Hadji-Ioannou...