Tswana tribes had rainmakers, whose job was to use magic to make the rain come.
Dan Kennedy is a master of teaching diverse businesspeople to become rainmakers through more effective marketing.
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At Sarnoff Hoyos met scientist Keith Hanna, who helped him launch Global Rainmakers in 2005.
Carlyle is famous for bringing in top politicos as advisers (rainmakers), though hardly alone.
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Lazard's luster as a merger advisory shop will remain only so long as its top rainmakers stay.
Goldman has always put the team above the individual, even though its ranks are certainly filled with rainmakers.
Tribalism dies hard on Wall Street, and Morgan Stanley's rainmakers treated Mr Purcell with suspicion from the start.
Personally, I have no problem with the few rainmakers bringing home the bacon.
Wasserstein has done a good job recruiting big rainmakers, including associates from his former days at First Boston in the 1980s.
So do casket sellers in Oklahoma, jai alai players in Rhode Island, reptile catchers in Michigan and rainmakers--yes, tribal rainmakers--in Arizona.
Global Rainmakers claims that its comparable system, called the iSwipe Mini, can lock in from a foot away in less than a second.
But his lavish spending to lure these rainmakers rankled the capitalists.
In the basement of the HarperCollins building in midtown Manhattan, headquarters of Global Rainmakers, a group of physicists and computer engineers are hunting identity thieves.
Global Rainmakers' smallest scanners, able to fit inside a BlackBerry or iPhone, could one day secure mobile transactions with a quick snapshot of a user's iris.
Up to this point, Global Rainmakers has been involved mainly in providing scanners for security purposes, but as the WSJ article on facial-recognition billboards in Japan indicates, there are commercial uses as well.
Hector Hoyos, Global Rainmakers' founder, has grand visions.
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