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Keep a Classic Approach to Your Brand

Success

But while the company flourished in Europe—according to a Harvard Business Review article written by Gehring, “From 2000 to 2006, while Hilfiger’s U.S. In 2006, Tommy Hilfiger was purchased by Apax Partners, and Gehring assumed control of the American branch of Hilfiger.

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Life Is Not a Movie

Success

Roger Ebert’s cancer diagnosis Since about 2006, not that he was counting, Ebert had been unable to eat or speak. This article was published in September 2011 and has been updated. In 2011, at 69 years old and in curious health, Ebert was being heard, a lot, and it was neither a coincidence nor an act of God. It was an act of Ebert.

Medical 269
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TV Host Darley Newman’s Ingenuity Turned Her Passion Project into a Business

Success

Equitrekking began in 2006 as a series of short videos that Newman published on her website, before online videos were popular. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. “For many years, I was the editor,” she says. “I In that way, she hopes, “It’s like community building”—on a global scale.

Travel 264
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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

Success

Smith’s unconventional motivation fostered success In 2006, when he was senior vice president of Intuit’s Small Business Division, he told his team he would put on a 1920s bathing suit and jump in a pond if they met the launch deadline for the latest version of QuickBooks. This article was published in March 2009 and has been updated.

2008 264
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The Explosion in Seed Round Funding

Small Business Labs

Crunchbase's How Seed Funding Has Exploded In The Past 10 Years reports that: Fewer than 3,200 companies received seed funding in the period between 2006 and 2010. The article points to the launch of Amazon Web Services in the mid-2000s, which made it cheaper and easier to start a software company, as a driver.  

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

After receiving his diagnosis in August 2006, Lester went through treatment, worked his way back into the major leagues and pitched—and won—a World Series game. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. “Instead, I asked how we get rid of this. I wanted to think positively and look forward.”.

2002 289
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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

Success

Although SUCCESS wasn’t as political as The National Post , the magazine was much more news-centric than it is today—articles regularly covered war and Washington intrigue, and were often written from a perspective that was progressive for the time.). A 1902 article was titled, “Should Wives Work?”

2007 331