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DIED. PHILLIP GOLDMAN, 39, Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded WebTV, a company that enabled people to surf the Internet from their television sets; of undetermined causes; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. After selling WebTV in 1997 to Microsoft for $425 million, he went on to create Mailblocks, a service to block junk e-mail...
From Milan boardrooms to Parma dairy farms, Calisto Tanzi was long viewed as a model Italian entrepreneur--modest, hardworking and, above all, generous. Over four decades, as he built Parmalat, the food company he founded in Parma in 1961, into a worldwide giant with annual sales of $9.6 billion, he showered the town with his philanthropy. A pious Catholic, Tanzi helped pay for a major restoration of Parma's 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local pro-soccer team, restored the theater and financed programs for the poor, AIDS patients and drug addicts. "He has got that impulse...
From Milan boardrooms to Parma dairy farms, Calisto Tanzi has long been viewed as the model Italian entrepreneur: hardworking, successful, modest, pious and, above all, generous. Over the past four decades, as he built dairy company Parmalat into a worldwide giant with annual sales of €7.6 billion, he showered his hometown of Parma with his philanthropy. Tanzi helped pay for a major restoration of Parma's theater and 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local soccer team, making it one of Europe's best, and financed programs for the poor, aids patients and drug addicts. Last February...
...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...