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...tech-savvy Japan, cell-phone commerce is an $83 billion industry. The leader is Xavel, which launched girlswalker.com the first free-of-charge cell-phone consumer portal. Six years later, it's the country's most popular cell-phone shopping site, garnering 100 million hits a day. Its partner, girlsauction.com boasts 1.5 million members and $43 million in monthly cell-phone transactions. "If I was going to do business, I was going to do it with women in their 20s and 30s," says CEO Fumitaro Ohama. "I wondered why nobody thought of it, considering they are such a huge market...
Brioni, headquartered on the Via Ges in the heart of Milan's shopping district, was founded in Rome in 1945 by tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and his entrepreneurial Roman partner, Gaetano Savini. Fonticoli had been trained in the Abruzzo school of tailoring, which blends cutting and stitching techniques borrowed from Savile Row with softer, Mediterranean-inspired lines. The pair's Sartoria Brioni on the Via Barberini was named after the Croatian islands of Brijuni, a glamorous golf and polo getaway favored by Italian aristocrats in the 1920s...
...very much enjoy each other.” Hillel President Judy Z. Herbstman ’07 grants that the two groups “have different agendas [for] what it means to be Jewish,” but she says Chabad is “a wonderful partner in creating meaningful Jewish experience.” She says Hillel and Chabad are “synergistic,” and, in reference to those who would suggest a rivalry, “I think maybe people are just looking for the story.” Touché.Rohr, like...
...borrower. "The big secret is that Dubai doesn't have much money," says Harry Alverson, managing director of the Carlyle Group. "Most of what they do is very leveraged." Yet borrowing to finance growth is what hot companies--and countries--do. That's why Carlyle is a partner. And why Alabbar is confident the Dubai miracle is no mirage. "The whole region needs to be served," he says, "and there is nobody there except Dubai...
...stay at home or juggle work and family. Many countries tackle the dilemma of infant child care by providing paid parental leave - in Canada, women who work 600 hours the year before their child is born qualify for a year's paid leave, which they can share with their partner. "It helps with family bonding," says Toronto economist Cleveland, "and gets rid of the problems with infant care levels." But despite a long campaign for a national paid parental leave scheme, Australia remains one of the few developed nations without...