Once one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers, with 27 dailies, Harte-Hanks sold off every last one of them over the past ten years without hesitation -- even Harte's beloved San Angelo Standard-Times -- to invest in the faster-growing business of direct marketing.

FORBES: The unsentimental publisher

Once one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers, with 27 dailies, Harte-Hanks sold off every last one of them without hesitation over the past ten years -- even Harte's beloved San Angelo Standard-Times -- to invest in the faster-growing business of direct marketing.

FORBES: The unsentimental publisher

Last year was the only one of the past ten in which funds of funds did not trail the company's hedge-fund index.

ECONOMIST: Funds of hedge funds

LVMH, a successful French luxury-goods group whose customers are mostly women, has had just one female director over the past ten years: Delphine Arnault, daughter of the firm's chief executive and controlling shareholder.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter