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Erik Buell, Founder and Chairman of Buell Motorcycles, the Harley-Davidson subsidiary that makes high-performance sport bikes, is dressed in his signature mechanic's shirt and faded blue jeans when he greets me at the Buell plant in rural East Troy, Wis. He's bouncing around from subject to subject--from his beloved sport bikes to motocross to how he makes guitars--with a passion that's palpable. I quickly forget the plane ride that I spent fretting about how to get out of riding a motorcycle. Buell has turned it into an opportunity you wouldn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harley-Davidson's Wildest Child | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...number of U.S. firms that are transferring white-collar work to Barbados, Jamaica and other locales abroad. Statistics on the trend are hard to come by, especially since many U.S. firms are eager to conceal the increasing extent of their foreign data-processing, engineering and computer activities. According to Harley Shaiken, a professor of information technology at the University of California at San Diego who has studied the phenomenon, such white-collar transfers amount to perhaps no more than the equivalent of 15,000 jobs right now. But more and more of this work is beginning to wend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAVE DATA, WILL TRAVEL | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...marriage was in trouble 10 years ago," he says, but it was reinvigorated with the help of His Needs, Her Needs by clinical psychologist Willard Harley. Wirth eventually contacted Harley and got permission to use the book for his church program. Meanwhile, at New Direction, Spencer discovered John Gray's Mars and Venus in the Bedroom and Getting the Sex You Want by Tammy Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And God Said, "Just Do It" | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...black, Friedman says, and a look at the ranch website confirms that view. There are two unwanted black mutts that have been given the supermodel names Christy Brinkley and Bridgett Bardot by Friedman's cousin Nancy Parker-Simons, who with her husband runs the rescue operation. And there is Harley, a medium-sized black mutt whose mutilated ear from a shotgun blast tells a typically sad tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Black Dogs Face Discrimination? | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...factors that separate breakthrough companies from their competitors is the tendency to continue to up the ante as the stakes in the game increase. Polaris Industries left the safety of its snowmobile niche to battle the Japanese in the ATV business and later took on the gang at Harley-Davidson in the motorcycle business. The Staubach Co., the commercial real estate broker, pushed to expand nationally before other tenant-rep firms did. Intuit faced down Microsoft twice, in the personal-financial-management-software business and in the small-business-accounting business. In each of these cases, competitors chose to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Myth of the Fearless Entrepreneur | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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