Shyness did not keep dressbarn co-founder from big retail leaps
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Roslyn Jaffe and her husband decided to start the first dressbarn store in the early 1960s, it was a retail experiment. Discounting was new to the industry, but the Jaffes decided to try it out with one store in Stamford, Connecticut. Elliot kept his day job at Macy’s while Roslyn […]
Saving the world is on Sue Desmond-Hellmann’s to-do list
(This version of the July 10th story corrects Desmond-Hellmann’s title to chief executive from president in second paragraph) NEW YORK (Reuters) – If you had $50 billion to try to solve the world’s worst problems, what exactly would you do? That is the daunting challenge that faces Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann when she walks into her […]
Reuters interview with ECB board member Schnabel
Reuters interview with Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board.
Presidential Material: Life Lessons with Bellamy Young
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States may not have had a woman president quite yet, but on TV it certainly has. One of those was Mellie Grant, the character played by Bellamy Young on the Shonda Rhimes hit “Scandal” before it ended last year. Now one of the stars of the Fox show “Prodigal […]
