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MICHAEL O'LEARY Airline Executive In his jeans-wearing corporate iconoclasm, O'Leary resembles fellow airline entrepreneur Richard Branson. While most carriers were paralyzed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, O'Leary, 40, chief executive of Dublin-based Ryanair, jumped into action, slashing fares for all seats on his no-frills airline to $15, selling a record number of tickets in one week. He took over the money-losing Ryanair in 1990 and made it profitable within a year. Even as others in the industry were cutting back earlier this year, Ryanair was growing, making short jaunts between 55 European...
...Using an airport analogy he tells a worried French entrepreneur, "You are short of runway. Come to my conference and I'll connect you to the right investors...
...black; she also stands out because of the range of people for whom she can make such homes. When she started her business in 1994, most of her customers were wealthy African Americans. Since then, her clientele has diversified. Her work on the several homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Andre Harrell is masculine, bold and warm. She uses classic pieces but freshens them with brazen upholstery or colors. The home she made for Eileen and Peter Norton, of Norton Utilities fame, is more eclectic, incorporating the Nortons' vast and pluralistic art collection, but it's not jumbled. She knew their...
Last year three Jive releases finished among the Top 10 best-selling U.S. albums: Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again, Backstreet's Black & Blue and 'N Sync's No Strings Attached. If you think that's just kid stuff, think again. Privately owned by South African entrepreneur Clive Calder, Jive (and its parent company, Zomba) rode the teen wave to an estimated $800 million in sales last year, making it the world's largest independent label. Jive's 6.7% U.S. market share placed it well ahead of better-established labels, including Arista (4.9%) and Def Jam (3.9%). This year Zomba...
...Fireman sees it, the conventional approach to business is boring, so bring on the controversy, play the game by your own rules, be a real entrepreneur. Back in the early 1990s, when he was already earning a seven-figure salary and bonuses, he was denied membership at a country club near his New England home. Fireman assumed the club turned him down because he is Jewish. He didn't fight for entry; he bought his own country club, decked out with an 18-hole golf course, an Olympic-size pool and tennis courts. That helps explain why he identifies with...