Businessmen+and+Entrepreneurs

[|How to Become an Intrapreneur]
Intrapra-who? Put simply, an intrapreneur acts as an entrepreneur within a company; using the organization’s resources to create and maintain new projects, ventures, or departments. Executive consultant, Carolyn Davis, defines the characteristics of an intrapreneur and suggests ways for companies to create an intrapreneurial culture. Use this link to watch the video.

[|Great Intrapreneurs in Business History]
Use this link to read the stories of how Post-it Notes, Sony PlayStation, and Elixir guitar strings came to be. 

[|How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories]
Use this link to find out how intrapreneurs at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other big companies pursued bold ideas that advanced their companies -and themselves.

Lakshmi Mittal
The Indian-born businessman Lakshmi Mittal built the world's biggest steel firm from scratch - at internet speed. Read this article from [|The Economist] to find out more.

Sachio Semmoto
Read how Sachio Semmoto, a telecoms engineer, became a serial entrepreneur and reshaped Japan's telecoms industry

Yossi Vardi
If you have used [|ICQ], then you have Yossi Vardi, the founder of the Mirablis, the company behind the instant messaging application, to thank. This article tells you more about the Palestinian born entrepreneur's past, present and future.

Leo Kirch
A fallen German media mogul Leo Kirch wants to be a player again. Read this article from [|The Economist] to find out how.

Allan Zeman
[|Allan Zeman] was born in Germany, but grew up in Canada, and has made his fortune in Hong Kong. The article from [|The Economist] describes how he has out-performed [|Disney] in the theme park business.

Madam C.J. Walker
Here is a link to a text on the American businesswoman and philanthropist Madam C.J. Walker. The text comes with questions at the end that you can answer to check your understanding of the key facts of her life

Yasuyuki Nambu
Yasuyuki Nambu of Pasona is on a mission to make Japan's labour market more flexible. An article from [|The Economist].

Anita Roddick, pioneer of green capitalism
Dame Anita Roddick, a true child of the 1960s, whose Body Shop cosmetics chain blended sensuousness, environmentalism, feminism and glamour with a whiff of political correctness, died this week (10 Sept 2007) at the age of 64. Here's short biography printed in The Economist.

[|The Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time]
To produce this compilation of the top 30 entrepreneurs of all time, BusinessWeek magazine asked a number of respected academics and writers for their selections based on criteria that included mass commerce and distribution of wealth. When you've read the article, view the [|slideshow] and then say which entrepreneur you find most interesting by posting a comment using the discussion tab on this page.

Warren Buffett
The Oracle of Omaha -- the world's greatest stock market investor -- lives in a house he bought for $31,500, dines on burgers and quotes [|Mae West]. He's worth $36 billion ... give or take a few mil. To find out more about this fascinating character (brought to my attention by Marc Hansmann) read the full article from the [|Salon.com] website.

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