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  • Second Act: Deborah Kenny, CEO, Harlem Village Academies Fortune - Mon, 14 May, 2012 11:40 AM EDT

    Before Deborah Kenny quit her job in 2001 to start a school for underprivileged youth in Harlem, her friends staged an intervention. They listed their concerns: She would run out of money, she'd lose her ...

  • Industrial ghost town? No, startup boomtown. Fortune - Fri, 11 May, 2012 3:04 PM EDT

    When Stephen Hindy opened a beer brewery in Brooklyn's then-scruffy Williamsburg neighborhood more than a dozen years ago, he was on the front edge of a wave of smaller businesses that were returning to ...

  • Industrial ghost town? No, startup boomtown. Fortune - Thu, 10 May, 2012 8:20 AM EDT

    When Stephen Hindy opened a beer brewery in Brooklyn's then-scruffy Williamsburg neighborhood more than a dozen years ago, he was on the front edge of a wave of smaller businesses that were returning to ...

  • Bain Capital's CRC Health rehab venture Fortune - Fri, 27 Apr, 2012 6:06 AM EDT

    In the handbook of private equity investing techniques, few make more intuitive sense than the "roll-up." Borrow some money, buy up small players in a fragmented industry, cut costs, find synergies, ...

  • How Paul Mitchell founder John Paul DeJoria got started Fortune - Wed, 25 Apr, 2012 7:04 AM EDT

    There are a lot of interesting things about John Paul DeJoria. Yes, he's the co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, which sells hair products in more than 150,000 beauty salons in 87 countries. Many ...

  • AlleyCorp's CEO Kevin Ryan on the best advice he ever got Fortune - Mon, 9 Apr, 2012 11:31 AM EDT

    "When I was 32, I joined DoubleClick a couple of months after it was started by Kevin O'Connor and Dwight Merriman. Before, I had always worked for large companies. After two weeks Kevin came to me ...

  • AlleyCorp's CEO Kevin Ryan on the best advice he ever got Fortune - Fri, 6 Apr, 2012 5:44 AM EDT

    "When I was 32, I joined DoubleClick a couple of months after it was started by Kevin O'Connor and Dwight Merriman. Before, I had always worked for large companies. After two weeks Kevin came to me ...

  • Beware the tax bite of oil and gold ETFs Fortune - Wed, 4 Apr, 2012 8:57 AM EDT

    With the Federal Reserve pledging to keep interest rates ultralow and geopolitical risk running high, investors seeking inflation hedges continue to pour money into commodities such as gold and oil. And ...

  • James Kim's big plans for PUST in North Korea Fortune - Thu, 15 Mar, 2012 6:19 AM EDT

    On the morning late last year that North Korea announced the death of Kim Jong Il, the dictator who for 17 years had presided over the world's most isolated regime, James (Chin-Kyung) Kim, a 76-year-old ...

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