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...Henderson also had the bad luck to have several deals blow up in his face. Entrepreneur Roger Penske walked away from an agreement to buy Saturn because he couldn't find anyone to supply him with cars, forcing GM to close the division...
Khazei, a prominent social entrepreneur, was the top choice among just 14 percent of likely voters, tying with Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen G. Pagliuca, who is a 1982 graduate of the Harvard Business School...
Berlusconi's media empire began with the local TV station for Milano 2, a subdivision Berlusconi built outside of Milan when he was a young construction entrepreneur in the 1960s. A pioneer of private commercial television in Europe, he then sidestepped Italy's antimonopoly laws banning national private television by buying up scores of local stations. With assets spanning Italy's largest publishing company, an ad agency and the AC Milan football team, Berlusconi built up his Fininvest empire to become Italy's richest man. In 1993 he entered politics, declaring his newly launched party to be a "pole...
...hand at the Institute of Politics forum last night to present the Sixth Annual New Frontier Award—an honor created in memory of her father John F. Kennedy ’40—to Pennsylvania Congressman Patrick J. Murphy and social entrepreneur Rebecca D. Onie...
...worker in Mumbai told me he bought one for Rs. 5,000 ($111). Meanwhile, the ration card is a step toward a passport. In theory, passports are difficult to get; police officers are supposed to visit you in person to verify your identity and address. However, according to an entrepreneur who helps set these things up, as long as you don't have an arrest record, the police will skip that formality -for a few hundred rupees. There is no need for counterfeit documents; for a fee, authentic ones are readily available. (See TIME's photoessay "A Jihadist's Journey...