Word: entrepreneurism
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...jejune way. (One of his latest conclusions is that American painters have never manifested "the will to make a masterpiece"--which would have come as news to Jackson Pollock, to say nothing of the thundering landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.) But whatever his merits as a thinker, as an entrepreneur Currin is doing fine. With his wife Rachel Feinstein, a sculptor whose high forehead and pert chin turn up repeatedly in his work, he's a regular on the art-world party scene, working up press coverage and collector interest. Steve Martin buys his work. Two years...
...europe. Regulatory headaches, difficult access to capital and a hodgepodge of privatization policies make the hard job of running a business even harder. Little wonder that more than half of small-business start-ups fail within five years. And yet Europe depends more and more on the bold entrepreneur. Across the region, over half the 120 million private-sector jobs are in small businesses (with fewer than 50 employees). As Europe's industrial giants move jobs to low-wage locales in developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMES) are the engine of new job growth, accounting for about two-thirds...
McLean-Foreman is one of the stars of Harvard’s cross-country and indoor track teams, and a budding sporting-goods entrepreneur. Originally from Bath, England, he took up competitive running at the age of 15, after finishing his first 800 meter race—during his high school’s intramural sports day—in an incredibly fast time of 1:55. He opted to matriculate to Harvard over Oxbridge because British universities do not allow their students the same opportunity to focus on sports. Despite taking last year off and practicing without a coach...
...bells currently hanging in Lowell’s belfry arrived at Harvard 73 years ago, donated by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who bought them from the Soviet Union...
...then I reconsidered my friends, whose studies had seemed so broad and outward: my female acquaintances in Women’s Studies, my friend from Mexico who studies Latin America, my old hallmate, an aspiring entrepreneur, who majors in Economics. To some degree, each of us studies ourselves, tailors our class schedule so that we can explore some facet of our culture, our background, our identities—both present and future...