Over the course of his 40 years as an entrepreneur, he founded successful businesses ranging from chemical manufacturing to oil and gas exploration.

The company, with businesses once ranging from foods to electronics, became one of Britain's biggest corporate failures last year.

In this environment, managers learn aspects of the business ranging from inventory and food cost control to staff management and special events planning.

The departing analysts assessed businesses ranging from oil to software to securities to airlines.

The first stop was the shopping center - about 20 businesses ranging from high fashion to hamburgers.

Gone is the grandiosity that assumed it could dominate businesses ranging from insurance to computer systems.

The company, one of the first in Texas to use data processing technology, owned businesses ranging from a savings and loan to a funeral home.

ITT has interests in business ranging from manufacturing to insurance.

Fiat is a global conglomerate with businesses ranging from construction equipment to insurance.

Key to the plan is a myriad of private/public partnerships with a wide variety of businesses ranging from grocery to media companies.