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...perform," says Rempt. If a business cannot be turned around, SecondWind will use its contacts to try to find a buyer for the assets. SecondWind this month attracted its first customer - one of the largest Dutch captive funds, and one that preferred to remain anonymous. SecondWind charges a flat consulting fee to VC firms and an additional "results" fee if it is successful in orchestrating an exit, such as an initial public offering or trade sale...
...Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins; it makes a strong case that natural resources should be just as valued a part of our capital base as factories and machines. Biomimicry by Janine Benyus encourages companies to look to nature for possible design techniques. She cites San Francisco's Iridigm, whose flat screens for mobile electronic devices produce color in a manner similar to the way microscopic structures create color on butterflies' wings. And in The New Economy of Nature, Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison tell the stories of innovators trying to "make conservation profitable," including financier Richard Sandor...
...anew. Brandon Kent, a 9-year-old from La Vernia, Texas, in whom ADHD was diagnosed in kindergarten (they did not yet know he was bipolar), took Ritalin and paid the price. "It sent him into depression," says his mother Debbie Kent. "Within a couple of months, he was flat on the couch and wouldn't move." By some estimates, up to 15% of children thought to have ADHD may actually be bipolar...
Traditional grocery chains, saddled with flat sales and shriveled margins, find they need to sell more gourmet-health fare to compete against the likes of both Whole Foods and Wal-Mart, the nation's largest grocer. Regional supers such as Pratt's Food Supermarkets--a chain in the Oklahoma City, Okla., area--are fighting back with more organic dairy, meats and dry goods. Kroger, the nation's No. 2 grocer, has carved out "natural food" departments in nearly a third of its 2,400 stores and is expanding its private-label organic brand, which includes cereals and potato chips, with...
...ideal place to sit and sip an ice-cold brew under the stars. From there it's a quick cab ride to the sleek new Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Shibuya, one of the city's shopping and restaurant hubs. The hotel features 21st century touches (web-enabled flat-screen TVs) and stunning views as far as Mount Fuji. Did I mention the marble baths...