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...winemaker's philosophy was to take classic Bordeaux but deliver it in a very modern way." "There's no reason why we can't make industrial wines just as well [as New World producers]," he says. Or sell them just as well. That's what Pascal Renaudat, an entrepreneur who aspires to create a French megabrand, is trying to do. He has persuaded several cooperatives in Bordeaux and around France to become shareholders in his firm, which is targeting the U.S. and Britain. Unlike his rivals, he's done exhaustive market research - the name of his brand, Chamarr...
...truncated edition of Carl von Clausewitz’s “On War,” the book jacket of which asks itself the obvious question before promptly providing an answer: “What can a nineteenth-century Prussian general teach a twenty-first century executive or entrepreneur about business strategy? Everything!” And who could forget the classic “The Change Monster,” whose premise goes “change is a monster that can’t be slain, but it can be made less ferocious...
...billion Estimated fortune of entrepreneur Zhang Yin, the first woman to top the annual Hurun Report list of China's richest people 40% Proportion of China's wealth held by the richest 10% of its population. The poorest 10% have just 2% of its wealth...
DIED. Gary Comer, 78, philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded the mail-order giant Lands' End; in Chicago. With an emphasis on sturdy products (famously sold as "Guaranteed. Period") and a clever, anecdote-filled "magalog," the world-class sailor turned a small sailboat- hardware business into a $1.9 billion clothing company before selling it in 2002. Downplaying his savvy, he said, "I picked things I liked, and over the years people interested in the same things gathered around...
...Favorite part about Harvard: Pseudo-undeserved influence, and the red hot school-funded social scene. Describe yourself in three words: Skinny fast magnetic. In 15 minutes you are: Getting my read on with the company of a quality Hefeweizen. In 15 years you are: A semi-retired social activist entrepreneur living abroad with the company of a much more expensive quality Hefeweizen...