Donatella Versace
Published: November 23, 2007
Donatella Versace was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
While completing her degree in languages at the University of Florence, she started assisting her brother Gianni in his work by supervising the photographic campaigns that contributed so greatly to the unique advertising style of Versace.
As Gianni Versace's right hand, Donatella became an integral part of the business. She started with the design of accessories, and went on to create a children's line, Young Versace, in 1993.
In 1994, she became Head Designer for Versus, a brand aimed at younger fashion enthusiasts.
Versace is today owner of 20 percent of Gianni Versace S.p.A. and holds the position of Creative Director and Vice President of the board.
She has two children, Allegra, 21, and Daniel, 16. Allegra is owner of 50 percent of Gianni Versace S.p.A.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/20/properties/web-1120-luxversace.php
Zhang Yin
Woman tops China's new rich list
Yuan notes
China's rampant economy is creating a widening income gap
Paper-recycling tycoon Zhang Yin has become the first woman to top the list of China's richest people, with a fortune of $3.4bn (£1.8bn).
Ms Zhang is the 49-year-old founder of Nine Dragons Paper, which buys scrap paper from the US for use in China.
Her wealth rose from $375m last year, when she was 36th in the annual China Rich List, compiled by Hurun Report.
Nine Dragons' shares have almost tripled in value since they were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Ms Zhang is now the richest self-made woman in the world, ahead of US TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
She takes over the top position from retail magnate Huang Guangyu of Gome Electrical Appliances.
There are 35 women on the 500-strong Hurun list, which contains 15 billionaires, double the number from 2005.
In July, Chinese president Hu Jintao called for greater measures to tackle the wealth gap.
The divide has accelerated as market forces exert a greater control over the economy, which grew at 11.3% in the second quarter of 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039296.stm
Steve Jobs
By Barbara Kiviat
Steve Jobs is great at playing the countercultural icon. He's a college dropout who once backpacked around India looking for spiritual enlightenment, and he takes only $1 a year in salary. There are righteous battles to fight, and with Macs and iTunes and iPhones, Jobs fights them, taking on the entrenched megaliths that try to dictate our tastes in computers and music and mobile phones.
But don't let the black mock turtleneck and denim trousers fool you. More than anything else, Jobs is a canny CEO who knows how to sell product. Steve Wozniak was the technical genius behind the first Apple computer; Jobs saw the marketability. He now presides over a company with $24 billion in annual sales and 22,000 employees. Jobs, 53, is revered by tech and design geeks, but the world's business-school students may have the most to learn from him. Apple's stock has shot up more than 70% over the past year, thanks to Jobs' strategy of focusing on his most profitable customers and coming up with new things to sell them—the ultra-thin MacBook Air most recently—rather than just chasing more market share.
Jobs may be a celebrity CEO, but he doesn't jump out of airplanes or traipse around Africa with bundles of cash. He is always in character and always on message, so much so that when late-night TV parodies him, he's invariably rolling out some new iProduct . Jobs gets called mercurial, egomaniacal, a micromanager. If that sounds a little like a CEO doing his job, maybe that's because he is—and a mighty fine one.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733758_1736089,00.html
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