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...shoe-leather campaigning hasn’t been easy for the 69-year-old member of the Leverett Senior Common Room...
With a top-class product (new airplanes, leather seats and live TVs on board), JetBlue challenged the skeptical perception of new airlines. But Neeleman, 43, also changed the reality. His obsession with employee happiness and customer service (when the blackout in August 2003 shut down most airlines, Neeleman drove out to the tarmac to beg for fuel) has set JetBlue apart from the rest of the industry. His motto: "Bring humanity back to flying." The legacy airlines, which haven't made a dime since 2001, can't beat JetBlue, so they have started their own look-alike versions...
...LEATHER LAPTOP BAG BY JZMO Jeffrey Orr designed this computer case for female execs tired of boring black bags. His techy totes come in colors like Midnight Mocha and Knockout...
Minoru Mori, Tokyo's most powerful property tycoon and a leading member of Japan's most prominent real estate--development family, fancies himself to be something of a philosopher-builder. Sitting in a leather armchair behind a gigantic marble conference table at his company headquarters, the 69-year-old president and CEO of Mori Building grandiloquently expounds upon his vision: Buildings are not just business ventures or structures where people live and work but also opportunities for social betterment. His goal, he says, is to revolutionize the way his countrymen live by creating high-rise, inner-city communities that...
...years, everyone will come to Milan to look at architecture," says Tomas Maier, the designer responsible for reinventing the Milan-based leather-goods company Bottega Veneta. "Everything looks like a stage set at night with double-height columns and huge proportions. People don't have an eye for this postwar, slightly fascistic look yet, but they will." The only son of two architects, Maier, who is German born, has lived most of his professional life between Paris and Miami. But the world of Milanese design is what inspires many of his fashion ideas. "I go around and look at architecture...