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...fashion world is all about timing, finding that perfect moment to launch the Next Big Thing. So it's not surprising that the upstart Italian clothing designer Nolita chose to unveil its latest ad campaign just in time for Europe's current round of catwalk shows for the spring-summer collections. But rather than politely join the parties in Milan and Paris, it has crashed them...
...national high school all-star tournament, would turn him into one of the most influential and controversial figures in the sport.His innovations included working with NIKE to pay both high school and college coaches to deck their players out with the Swoosh, convincing Phil Knight’s then-upstart sneaker company to “just do it” by throwing unheard amounts of cash at a kid from UNC named Michael Jordan after the 1984 draft, and founding the ABCD Camp in New Jersey and the Big Time Tournament in Las Vegas, both Meccas on any high...
...solution. But when the Italian Treasury eventually put most of its 49.9% share of Alitalia on the market, the terms of the sale came with so many strings attached that, one by one, all potential buyers (from U.S. private equity fund Texas Pacific to Russian carrier Aeroflot to upstart Italian airline Air One) ducked out of the bidding...
...upstart in Cambridge, Mass., wants to make it easier to receive packages at home. IdentiCert has developed a modular, electronic storage box system that can be installed in any apartment or condominium complex. Invented by three recent graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and funded by private investors, the easyQube kiosk is modeled after low-tech oversized mailboxes secured by key that have long been used in Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries. EasyQubes, on the other hand, open with an electronic swipe card, and recipients are notified via email when their package...
...average person who Fred Kavli is, and you'll probably draw a blank stare. Pose the same question to the scientific community, however, and you're likely to get an admiring smile. Since 2000, when the Norwegian-born engineer started a foundation that bears his name, the upstart philanthropist has funded work in several critical scientific areas and virtually created a new class system among research universities: those that can boast of having a Kavli Institute and those that wish they could...