Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French gave the world the word entrepreneur, but they have not given it many entrepreneurs. Most French businessmen still look to the government for cues and favors rather than trying to make quick profits on their own. Bernard Tapie, 47, is one of a new breed who is changing all that. Last week the Paris businessman made his boldest venture yet, offering to buy 80% of West Germany's Adidas, a company 15 times the size of his holding company, Groupe Tapie...
Reassurance that Tapie's deal is for real also came from American entrepreneur Peter Ueberroth, whose Contrarian Group last year assumed managerial control and part ownership of Adidas' U.S. operations. Ueberroth met Horst Dassler in 1979 and with his help and advice transformed the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles into the first one ever to make a profit. Ueberroth has already staunched Adidas' U.S. losses, and in May he flew to Paris for a first meeting with Tapie. Ueberroth said last week he was "impressed with Tapie's global vision" and ability to give slipping companies new energy...
American consumers are pinching pennies again. -- Greenspan hints that the Fed may ease interest rates. -- French entrepreneur Bernard Tapie makes his boldest...
Such accomplishments would be fulfillment enough for most humans. But they attest to only a few of MacCready's many skills. He has piloted conventional aircraft as well as sailplanes and hang gliders, is an ardent environmentalist and a successful entrepreneur, the founder and president of AeroVironment Inc., a small, innovative firm that specializes in monitoring and cleansing the environment, alternative energy and energy-efficient vehicles. He also frequently dons the hat of an educator, lecturing at schools, universities and business meetings, urging the formal teaching of the kinds of "thinking skills" he feels are necessary to meet growing environmental...
Neither do other members of the family. TIME sought interviews from six of the family members -- all male -- who work for the company. All declined, including Si, his brother and some descendants who are said to be heirs apparent. Says Si's friend, magazine entrepreneur Peter Diamandis: "The only certainty about what will happen to the company is that, whoever runs it, the boss's family name will be the same...