Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since entrepreneur and stock-market speculator Billy Durant first cobbled together a venture he called General Motors in 1908, the company has always been ruled by finance men, numbers wizards and balance-sheet fixers. No one was a better example of this than Roger Smith, a diffident financial virtuoso who led the company during the 1980s. But when Smith retired last July after a decade in which GM lost one-fourth of its U.S. market share, mostly because of weak products, GM's board made history by promoting an engineer to the chairman...
...Harvard Entrepreneur's Club plans to intitiate a non-profit program next spring to teach students how to use computers for business applications, club organizers said yesterday...
...shaken up? Preposterous. But these are extraordinary times, as the small group of businessmen pointed out during a meeting two weeks ago with Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh and younger brother and confidant of King Fahd. "This is the biggest challenge we have ever faced," said one entrepreneur, mindful of the menacing forces of Saddam Hussein gathered just 300 miles to the north. Said another, summoning his courage: "We have to confront our internal issues...
...entrepreneur knows that thinking up a good idea for a product is the easy part. Seven years ago, Terren Dunlap, a lawyer in Scottsdale, Ariz., started a company called Go-Video to produce programs for corporate meetings and family occasions. He soon discovered that making cassette copies by wiring machines together was unwieldy and produced poor results, so he decided to develop a double-deck VCR. Since then, Dunlap has battled opponents ranging from Hollywood movie studios to Tokyo electronics giants. Starting this month, videophiles will finally be able to buy Dunlap's VCR-2 (price...
Being a State Department bureaucrat has its occasional unexpected rewards, including a chance recently to rain on Ted Turner's parade. The flamboyant entrepreneur and cable mogul wanted State to issue a visa to Jose Ramon Fernandez, the Cuban Vice President who oversees athletic development and competition, so that the official could accompany Cuba's delegation to the Goodwill Games in Seattle. No dice. A presidential directive bars Cuban Communist Party members from traveling to the U.S. for anything other than official business. The Goodwill Games, which have been plugged so insistently on Turner's TV outlets that some...