Imagine sitting at a conference roundtable and being able to look out on the turquoise sea for inspiration. At lunch, you steal away to sunbathe on deck. That night, after a featured speaker presentation, you'll watch a cabaret. Tomorrow, you'll spend a few hours on Grand Cayman.
Why does French dressmaker Chanel always seem chic? What does British seamstress Vivienne Westwood have that others don't? And even though it's been 25 years since "Top Gun", why does everybody still want a pair of Ray Bans?
When the Republican candidates were asked what they would bring to the White House if elected, Georgia businessman Herman Cain set himself apart from the career politicians on the stage with him by replying: "I would bring a sense of humor to the White House, because America's too uptight!"
Harley-Davidson pulled a wheelie on Wall Street today. Shares of the motorcycle giant shot up 9% Tuesday after it reported that U.S. bike sales rose on an annual basis for the first time in nearly five years. Shares closed at $45.11, up $3.70 on the day.
A bareheaded motorcyclist participating in a ride to protest mandatory helmet laws was killed when he was thrown over the handlebars in Onondaga, New York.
"How do you wear all this leather and stay cool?" biker Palin asked another woman
For video game fans, many of the gadgets and accessories designed to support today's games are as unique and imaginative as the games themselves.
The Sports Illustrated model says she revs up her motorcycle to relax
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CNN's Sara Sidner explains why iconic motorbike maker Harley Davidson is keen to tap into India's economy.
Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle brand with a cult-like following, has announced it has chosen to build its second assembly plant ever outside the United States in India.
When I talk to my motorcycling friends, many of them are hankering for an electric motorcycle. But only, they stress, if it's a motorcycle, not a motor scooter. One friend explained that to motorcycling types, a high-end electric motorcycle would be like going from a Ferrari to a Tesla: "If I was used to driving a Ferrari and you put me in a Tesla I would love it." In other words, high-end Harley riders are not a group interested in the two-wheeled version of, say, a Fiat or Tata.
Harley-Davidson was the feel-good turnaround story of the 1990s and then the poster-boy for brand values in the 2000s. How often did you read that Harley was the only consumer brand whose customers were so loyal they wore the company's logo tattooed on their chest?
When President Barack Obama rolled out a $50-billion six-year infrastructure proposal Monday, thousands who gathered in Milwaukee were eager to hear his message.
With record cash on hand and a swell of profits at many large companies, it's hard not to wonder if corporate America has what it takes to help turn this sluggish economy around.
Those who make their living with race cars are spread to the four winds in the short stretch of quiet that passes for an offseason, but they usually find themselves in a car, under a hood or at a track anyway. They just don't get paid for it. Sometimes they're drawn back together by anticipation of racing's blurry circle starting all over again.
Weak consumer spending and frozen credit markets are making a rough ride for Harley-Davidson.
Investors who count on dividend payments as a "safe" investment are getting hammered right along with share prices.
The hot water goes cold, the air conditioner goes hot or maybe the washing machine's spin cycle is starting to sound like a Harley-Davidson rally. Alas, your warranty on the appliance in question expired long ago. Suddenly you're faced with a tough, potentially pricey decision: fix the broken item or replace it? Repair would cost less in the short term, but you'd hate to invest in something that could spring another problem soon. These guidelines will help you decide.
The scooter is becoming the new must-have set of wheels in a lot of American cities.
All that sculptor Ed McBride intended to build was a simple charcoal grill for his backyard. A year later he was searing salmon steaks on a barbecue fashioned to look like a five-foot-tall dragon.
In print advertisements, which comes first -- the word or the image?
Barely more than a week after his alcohol relapse and subsequent hospitalization, David Hasselhoff tells PEOPLE he is back on the straight and narrow.
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Anti-war protesters and troop supporters let their voices be heard in Washington. CNN's Kathleen Koch reports.
Harley-Davidson said Friday it expects its full-year earnings to come in below year-ago results as consumers reduce spending.
U.S. stocks retreated in early trading Friday after a surprising August jobs report that showed a decline in payrolls.
No peaceful Florida vacation for Rosie O'Donnell - who found herself in a screaming match with a biker that eventually had him retreating.
The following are some of Thursday's most actively traded stocks:
Professionally, Don Megge is living on borrowed time. For starters, he works in the auto industry - a field in which plant closings, employee buyouts and layoffs are an everpresent threat.
Technology stocks slipped at Thursday's U.S. market open as concerns about Apple weighed on investors. The broader market was up slightly.
Despite all the worries, last year turned out to be quite good for blue-chip stocks. Although prices were flat early in 2006, stocks rallied strongly in the second half.
The Dow Jones industrial average reached an all-time high a couple of weeks ago, and now the venerable stock market index is closing in on the 12,000 mark.
Perched on a gleaming Harley-Davidson, Ricardo Fisas looks much younger than his 80 years.
Cars have a long history in rock music. Ike Turner's 1951 tune "Rocket 88" -- arguably the first rock hit -- was about a high-horsepower Oldsmobile.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his son, Patrick, received minor injuries Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident near their home, the governor's press secretary said in a written statement.
Poor little rich babe, scion of English movie-star royalty, AK-47-toting punkette bounty hunter: If Domino Harvey's life didn't already sound like a chicly garish girl-with-model- cheekbones-goes-slumming thriller, then a girl-with-model-cheekbones- goes-slumming thriller would have to be made to exploit it.
Motorcycle windshields were once big, ugly, and uncool. But all that changed when Norm Dober started manufacturing small, aerodynamic windscreens at a factory in Silicon Valley. Now WindVest Motorc...
SO FAR, 2005 IS SHAPING UP TO BE A tough year for investors. Following gloomy profit reports from blue-chip companies such as IBM, Coca-Cola, and General Motors, a string of economic statistics--in...
Florida and Canadian law enforcement officials Wednesday released the picture of a young girl, reclining on a couch, who authorities described as a possible witness in an Internet child pornography investigation.
The Harley Davidson plant in Kansas City, Missouri is a bike lover's paradise, where iconic motorcycles such as the Dyna Glide and V-Rod are born.
Tour operators and travel agents are increasingly filling a demand for vacations that combine golf and activities off the course.
[HIT] Why it pays to get in touch with your feminine side. Harley-Davidson is firing on all cylinders. In January the motorcycle maker reported a record $890 million in profits for fiscal 2004, wit...
Motorcycle sales jumped to their highest level in 25 years in 2004, according to a published report.
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From the grocery aisle to the gas pump, inflation seems to be creeping back. So far, it's still low in absolute terms--around 3%. And there's a lively debate among market watchers about how fast in...
From the grocery aisle to the gas pump, inflation seems to be creeping back.
You're traveling on business this summer and find yourself with a few hours to kill. No client to satisfy. No kids to entertain. Just you--itching to fill your belly, slake your thirst, and relax i...
Now that the days of skyrocketing earnings seem to be numbered, it may be time to focus less on earnings reports and pick up some new reading material, boring old balance sheets, one Wall Street strategist said Tuesday.
The bull market celebrated its first birthday on March 11, and that anniversary should be cause for widespread happiness. But for many investors, a tinge of anxiety has undercut both their enthusia...
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party.
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party. Shareholders are already celebrating. As of Ju...
Apple's Cube, VW's Beetle, Michael Graves's toaster: The material world has never looked so good. It is, to some degree, a Brooks Stevens world. A pioneer of industrial design's first golden age (a...
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party.
One week, the Wall Street Journal proclaims on the front page that there is no pension crisis; the next week, Fortune compares pension problems to the lurking menace in Nightmare on Elm Street. All...
KEN OSTERMANN Manager of electronic commerce, Harley-Davidson
Do corporate rock & roll bands reflect the inner soul of a company? I would argue yes. Fortunately I had the perfect proving ground to confirm this hypothesis: FORTUNE's second annual Battle of the...
Wearing black leather and riding huge Harleys, a motorcycle gang thunders through northern Georgia as if en route to a rumble. But the only rumble for this gang--the Atlanta Harley Owners Group (HO...
Apparently, you can make a killing by making nice. Each year, FORTUNE publishes the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The ranking, compiled by Milton Moskowitz and Robert Levering of the Great Place ...
Back in 1983, when John Bloor visited a shuttered factory in Coventry, England, the housing developer was looking for his next building site. What he found instead was an idea for a new business. A...
What you don't know can hurt you. Especially when you used to know it. What we're talking about here is disclosure, or rather the lack of it. In many instances, companies suddenly stop disclosing v...
Not every bubble, it seems, has burst. The market capitalization of motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson, for instance, is expanding faster than the waistline of a beer-bellied biker. Its shares have s...
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For the last four years, practically all that investors have cared about, outside of the Internet, are large-caps, megacaps and ultracaps. The bigger the stock, the better. There was good reason fo...
Why Madonna and not the Spice Girls?
Anyone rusty on panic?" asked Reg Pridmore, champion motorcycle racer and instructor, as a torrential El Nino rain turned Southern California's Willow Springs Raceway into a water ride. The questio...
If you can take out a loan to pay for a new Harley, why not do the same to get whiter teeth, thinner thighs and fewer wrinkles? After all, notes Anne M. Tynion, a former vice president at Harley-Da...
Do the open road, the roar of an air-cooled engine and the wind in your face stir memories of a braver time? If so, you're not alone. Thousands of males in mid-life denial have found that today's m...
Like a farmer who is competing to have the fattest watermelon at the county fair, your investment aim during most of your working life is pretty straightforward: Make the crop grow. But in retireme...
MOST GREAT BLUE-CHIP GROWTH STOCKS OF THE past 20 years share a common trait: rapid international expansion contributed mightily to their success. Think for a moment about three of the world's best...
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IN THE DAYS of misty towers, distressed maidens, and stalwart knights, a young man, walking down a road, came upon a laborer fiercely pounding away at a stone with hammer and chisel. The lad asked ...
The rumors started the moment Indian Motorcycle closed shop. The company, and the flamboyant motorbikes it had made for 53 years, would be back. Today, four decades later, the rumor turns out to be...
No, they didn't pull up the drawbridge or hide in their root cellars. In fact, the good citizens of Milwaukee welcomed the horde of 75,000 invading bikers. And why not? These motorcyclists -- inclu...
CUSTOM CHROME Has Nace Panzica changed much since he brought Custom Chrome public 18 months ago? The CEO points to the tie and business suit he is wearing and bursts out laughing. He and most of Cu...
So far, 1992 has been a year of disappointing choices -- and we're not talking only about the three presidential candidates. Just look at your options if you have money to invest. Stocks are tradin...
-- Squeeze more yield from your CDs by laddering. Stash equal parts of your money in a three-month, six-month, nine-month and one-year CD. As each comes due, replace it with a one-year CD. That way...
Fund manager Ken Heebner doesn't like being compared with former rival Peter Lynch, the phenom who retired from Fidelity Magellan at age 46 in 1990. ''I'm not really in Peter's league,'' says Heebn...
Are you tempted by stocks but leery of their volatility, in view of the market's recent surges and dips? You might consider convertible bonds, a peculiar hybrid of equity and debt that offers both ...
ARE AMERICA'S corporate chiefs perhaps slightly behind the power curve on the issue of white-collar productivity? FORTUNE recently picked the minds of CEOs at the nation's top industrial and servic...
WILLIAM E. PRATHER, 42 IMASCO LTD. Fast food can mean a fast career track. Prather bolted Burger King in 1985 to become president of Imasco's Hardee's Food Systems. As of January 1, he'll have the ...
At the start of the 1980s few people gave Harley-Davidson much chance to survive. The last U.S. motorcycle maker was being battered by the Japanese. Its share of the super-heavyweight motorcycle ma...
JAMES H. PATERSON, 41 HARLEY-DAVIDSON INC. When Harley asked Paterson to oversee marketing of its motorcycles in 1984, the former accountant put away his spreadsheets and strapped on his helmet. He...
HARLEY REVS UP ITS PROFITS Most motorists defer to guys on Harley-Davidsons, but the motorcycle maker's stock doesn't get the respect it deserves, analysts say. Since losing $6.61 a share in 1982, ...
AMERICAN managers in the U.S. who latched on to Japanese-style just-in-time production methods as a panacea for their manufacturing woes are finding that making the cure work is tougher than they e...
''Export restraints are like opium addiction.'' -EIJI TOYODA, 71, chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. ''It's getting a little mushy underfoot.'' -EDWARD MEYER, 60, chairman of Grey Advertising, on the s...
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