Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...strategy, we hope 2006’s tailgate will run much more smoothly. Finally, the ticketing system for non-student attendees was poorly publicized and inefficient. Many non-student revelers arrived at Ohiri Field only to be told to make the trek back to the Harvard Box Office; one entrepreneur nearly cashed in on the confusion and attempted to scalp tailgate tickets, but he was arrested (he also was not a student). Better communication and perhaps on-site ticket sales will be needed in the future to reduce headaches all around and ensure that alums and other partygoers are clear...
These "Merci" cards, designed by stay-at-home mom turned Web entrepreneur Gillian Dewberry, keep neat in the stainless steel So Write Cube; $50 at dewdropdesigns.com...
...including with UBS, Morgan Stanley and Nextra, which are under criminal investigation. As he awaits trial, Ferraris says he still can't come to terms with the whole affair. Asked what he thinks about Tanzi, he says, "I have a problem. I believed so much in Tanzi as an entrepreneur that I have a hard time seeing him as anything else. For 13 years I think he's a genius, and then I find out he's a crook. If I'd known, I'd have stayed in Australia...
...more than double that on the balance sheet. "Until then, I never suspected the accounts were false," says Ferraris. He knew he had to go to the top. In mid-October he met with Tanzi. Until then, Ferraris says, he had valued Tanzi as "an excellent person, a real entrepreneur" - a charismatic but steady leader who was so proficient at math that he always spotted calculation errors in presentations. "I expected him to say, 'Your numbers are wrong.'" Instead, he recalls, Tanzi just shrugged. "He said, 'Eight billion, 11 billion, 14 billion - it's all the same.'" Stunned, Ferraris urged...
...emerges from bankruptcy next year," says one person close to the U.S. banks. FUNDING THE "BLACK HOLE" Alberto Ferraris wasn't the only one who thought highly of Calisto Tanzi. Until Parmalat collapsed, the 66-year-old founder was an almost legendary figure in Italy, viewed as a classic entrepreneur who built a world-class company from scratch. Soon after founding Parmalat as a dairy company in 1961, he was quick to embrace a new pasteurization technology that allowed milk to stay fresh for months without refrigeration. Parmalat's distinctive cartons soon became a fixture in stores across Italy...