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Don’t worry though: Levitt finds that most people don’t cheat. He made friends with an entrepreneur named Paul Feldman, who, over eight years, trustingly placed over a million bagels in D.C. offices next to a box asking for an “on your honor” payment. He kept incredibly accurate records, and now we can see how cheating—in the form of “white collar crime”—varies over holidays (stealing increases dramatically over Christmas and decreases on the 4th of July) and during...
DIED. BETTY TALMADGE, 81, prominent Washington socialite and entrepreneur who made headlines in the late 1970s when she testified before the Senate Ethics Committee against her estranged husband, Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge; in Atlanta. A witty Southerner who started and ran a successful business, she learned on a TV news show that her husband planned to divorce her. Later, under subpoena, she testified that he kept bundles of $100 bills, allegedly unreported donations, in a coat pocket in the couple's hall closet. Although he denied that and other charges, she turned over 77 of the bills from the stash...
...against a soundtrack of thumping music and the high-pitched shrieks of revelers. The cruise liner is the latest cheap-and-cheerful venture from Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Ten years after U.K.-based easyJet - now one of the largest intra-European airlines - took off, there's an easy way to do almost anything. In the last six months alone, the easy brand - owned by Stelios' easyGroup - has lent its name to an online movie-rental operation, a mobile-phone operator and a pizza-delivery service. Expect budget motor insurance this month, and a bare-bones hotel in west...
Naguib Sawiris likes to think of himself as the Middle East's answer to Richard Branson. Last year the Egyptian entrepreneur started operating what is so far Iraq's only mobile-phone network. After just six months, his company, Orascom Telecom, already has more than half a million subscribers there, earning it $95 million before taxes and interest. Like Branson, Sawiris is a music lover - he calls himself a "party animal" - and has a taste for risky ventures. To date, six Orascom engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in Iraq and two of its sites have been shot...
...from a scruffy Harlem elementary school to the top of the heap? Not all that far, in the benign perception of Entrepreneur Eugene Lang, 66, if you can stick with your books and show a little hustle. Before he was nine years old, Lang was doing plenty of both. Each school day he walked the two miles back and forth between his home in Manhattan and P.S. 121 in Harlem to save the nickel carfare. Along the way, he picked up extra nickels from other boys by selling checkers that he had carefully lead weighted to become lethal shooters...