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...lucky investor. Works by Fernando Botero from that period are worth about $500,000 these days. "I sold my paintings myself to friends," Botero says. "They would come over after dinner. I was broke." Talk about a reversal of fortune. Botero is now one of the world's richest and most successful artists. This week, a major retrospective, covering merely the last 15 of his 56 years' work, opens in Rome's Palazzo Venezia, showcasing 170 paintings, drawings and sculptures. The exhibition moves to the Würth Museum in Künzelsau, north of Stuttgart, Germany, in October...
When it comes to providing social space for its students, the oldest and richest university in the country is a blundering failure. Few were surprised in April when a confidential internal memo revealed that Harvard finished fifth from the bottom in a 2002 student satisfaction survey of 31 colleges. With Harvard receiving an average rating of 2.62 on a five point scale for its campus social life, it’s clear that many Harvard students are frustrated with a campus that provides few social options and even fewer social venues...
...leading ice cream manufacturer, intend to take an even bigger bite out of the $32.4 billion global market? By making some of its 2,000 ice cream brands--ranging from Ben & Jerry's to Magnum--a little healthier. This summer the company is launching lower-fat versions of its richest flavors, hoping slimmed-down ice cream will excite consumers increasingly concerned about their waistlines...
Bill Gates' time is valuable. There are Microsoft employees who wait their whole career to be alone with Gates for 45 minutes. As the richest man in the world and, arguably, the greatest philanthropist in history, at any given moment Gates could and probably should be off feeding the hungry or curing some horrible disease...
...market that many established companies haven't figured out or are scared to talk to. "Marketers are obsessed with 16-to-24-year-olds while substantially ignoring the largest, richest cohort of women in the history of humanity," marvels Bob Garfield, advertising critic for Advertising Age. "It's bizarre how focused people are on children when the baby boom is just sitting there with hundreds of billions of dollars of discretionary income and very few kids left in the house to spend it on." Women make the majority of purchasing decisions. "The marketers I talked to for my research...