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...Ghanaian husband rented out their brownstone in Boston and moved to Ghana. They created Land Tours Ghana, a business specializing in guiding tourists through the country. Boyd, 55, now Land Tour's CEO, had visited Ghana before but had never done business in the country. She found that her go-go, type-A American personality was a poor fit with the laid-back spirit of most Ghanaians...
...Though that deal ultimately failed, Horie's ability to turn his tiny company into a behemoth with a market value as high as $8 billion helped spark a broader M&A boom. Rivals in Japan's go-go Internet industry learned that they too could grow by gobbling up corporate minnows. "A lot of people have followed the Livedoor model," says Tom Sato, founder of Tokyo IPO, a financial-information website. Softbank has executed 140 mergers or acquisitions; Rakuten, Japan's leading online-shopping site, has executed 55 of them; Yahoo! Japan has done 24. Although Japan still...
...each of her 65 clients in person, "and you notice he starts fidgeting. That body language alone tells me something. He doesn't want to repeat this for his own kids." With baby boomers funding retirements and more people reluctant to go it alone like in the go-go '90s, the College for Financial Planning reports that median annual earnings for certified planners have grown 28%, to $153,500, over the past three years...
...candidate is hoping to pad his campaign war chest by selling tickets to a “sexy, erotic” private party featuring scantily clad go-go dancers. So novel—and naughty—a fund-raising thrust has raised eyebrows and drawn national media attention since its announcement...
...resemblance does not end there. Even some of their critics compare the Go-Go Boys to Hollywood's founding fathers, who snorted when anyone talked about art in films and were devoted to making money. "They are like the old studio moguls; they eat, sleep and breathe pictures," says J. Lee Thompson, a 50-year show-biz veteran who is directing one of their thrillers, Murphy's Law. "The whole industry used to be like that. It's not now." Globus agrees: "The moguls cared to make money like we care to make money--so that they could...