They tended to be the children of white, prosperous families, products of northeastern preparatory schools, where the game is a fixture; after graduation most of them go on to lucrative careers in fields like finance.
He acknowledged that he was a product of the prosperous times of the last several years in New York, times that allow more and more young men to spend $450 on the leather jackets he designs.
But it wasn't until she had had a "prosperous career in marketing and product development," as she describes it, that she discovered feng shui and immersed herself in a three-year feng shui masters training program, studying the philosophy of Lin Yun, a well-known practitioner.
Current frameworks for governance direct innovation towards products that yield economic gain, which means products for the more prosperous, dominant groups in European societies, and on a global scale products for the west.
Pharmaceutical company representatives have told me that in (relatively prosperous) South Africa, they price their products for the top 5% of the market, while in India their customer base might be just the top 1.5%.
He says, as clearly as it can be said, that the magic of success in business is having prosperous customers who can buy your product.
But innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient in all economic progress — higher growth for nations, more competitive products for companies, and more prosperous careers for individuals.
Despite having a long and prosperous history, over the past two decades, the wood products sectors in these four countries have faced a steady decline in profitability, the ability to add value through downstream manufacturing, and overall competitiveness.
California told a developer to relocate a manufacturing plant for a surgical-products company from a more prosperous part of San Jose to a poorer one, said Brook J. Taylor, a spokesman for the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development in California.
