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...dual role as chairman of both Warnaco and Authentic Fitness for much of the past decade. Wachner and a group of investors bought Warnaco's Speedo swimwear division in 1990 and took it public two years later as Authentic Fitness, only to bring it back to the corporate fold in 1999--a bit of financial gymnastics that helped prop up Wachner's bank account but ultimately loaded Warnaco's balance sheet with an extra $600 million in debt...
...industry, turned to him to restore its shattered fortunes. Seillière transformed the creaky industrial artifact into a modern conglomerate with interests ranging from information technology and Internet services to energy, real estate and auto parts. In less than 25 years, he multiplied the company's worth 90-fold to some $1.25 billion...
Along with Let’s Go, the Harvard Shop will be HSA’s only for-profit enterprise and its first fully-stocked retail store. The new acquisition represents at least a 20-fold increase in HSA’s inventory...
Lightning came down like a wolf on the fold and blew the telephone box off the side of the house just now. Nature has been setting a bad example this weekend...
...about all those Silicon Valley optionaires who lost much of their fortune in the tech meltdown? Perhaps not. Poor little not-so-rich kids. We should all have such problems, right? Turns out many of us do. The number of people holding employee stock options is exploding, up 10-fold to 10 million since 1992. And most option holders are in non-tech industries, where the programs are so new that many recipients haven't a clue how to manage this asset...