Word: entrepreneurism
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...supporters and associates, that is the critical issue. Mokhtar is a shrewd, self-made entrepreneur. "The man comes from the school of hard knocks. He wasn't an accountant who had everything handed to him on a silver platter like the others," says one close adviser. "His father was a cattle farmer. He took a loan from the government in the '70s to buy his own trucks to carry cattle from one state to the next to get a higher price. Then he started transporting rice in the same trucks and bought his own paddy fields...
DIED. GENICHI KAWAKAMI, 90, entrepreneur dubbed "the emperor," who oversaw the expansion of a tiny Japanese corporation he inherited from his father into Yamaha, world-renowned maker of motorcycles and musical instruments; in Hamamatsu, Japan...
Last month TIME convened a five-member Board of Technologists to discuss how evolutionary biology--think of it as Earth's R. and D. department--is influencing the way we build computers, write software and organize companies. One member of our panel, Ray Kurzweil, an inventor, technology futurist and entrepreneur, observes that the human brain has no single "chief executive officer neuron." What gives the brain its power is not one boss but the ability of billions of neurons to conduct trillions of operations instantaneously. In computer lingo, that's called parallel processing, and it is something that today...
Michael B. Packer ’76, an e-commerce entrepreneur who introduced a major Internet commerce project to the world’s largest brokerage house, died in the attacks on the World Trade Center...
...there that she met her husband, of 18 years Randy E. Hartnett ’74, who is an Internet entrepreneur...