"We wouldn't have changed the outlook if we felt there wasn't a good chance he could turn the enterprise around," said Larry Mayewski, a senior vice president at A.M. Best.
Supporters see it as a breakthrough for entrepreneurs who hope to build an enterprise around sometimes offbeat ideas without having to sell them to larger companies.
Former Accenture, Ernst & Young and KPMG management consultant Nicola Semple now uses her skills to "support mums who want to build a profitable enterprise around their family".
Attendance at the struggling aquarium rose to an all-time high, and all those visitors, with their demands for snacks and souvenirs and motel rooms and gasoline, buoyed every enterprise around.
Khodorkovsky disputes this account, claiming that he turned a rotting Soviet enterprise around: two years later, Yukos, a company that Menatep had effectively sold to itself, was valued at nine billion dollars.
Once it arrives, a giant floating crane will be there to lift the Enterprise around midday onto the flight deck of the ship, which is supposed to be its temporary resting place while officials of the museum devise a permanent home for it.
