BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Whiz Kid
- a young, exceptionally successful personĂ¢â‚¬"especially one who makes a lot of money in large financial transactions, including takeovers
Additional Resources
- Computer publishing's whiz kid
- Computer publishing's whiz kid He is not even 40 years old, but David Bunnell is already responsible for founding no fewer than four of the industry's most successful computer magazines. And as anyone in publishing knows, success doesn't come easily in that field. "His genius--and I really...
- Research articles 1987-02-01
- New York Whiz Kid Money Manager Pleads Guilty to Fraud.
- By Robert Gearty, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13--A whiz kid money manager who showered expensive gifts on his Playboy centerfold girlfriend with funds he swindled from investors pleaded guilty yesterday to fraud. Mark Yagalla, 24, pleaded...
- Research articles 2001-12-13
- Daniel Gordon.(Rogue's Gallery)(Brief Article)
- Daniel Gordon, the 27-year-old former head energy trader at Merrill Lynch, pleaded guilty to charges he stole $43 million from the firm. The onetime whiz kid implicated superiors at Merrill in a scheme to falsify records of the firm's ... Daniel Gordon, the 27-year-old...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Miro puts on quite a show for Congress. (Carlos Miro) (Washington Notebook) (Column)
- There was an air of unreality about the testimony of Carlos Miro, the self-confessed insurance fraud whiz kid. "I became sort of a cult figure in London," he ad libbed. He seemed almost to be enjoying his role as star witness before the ...
- Research articles 1993-05-31
- Entrepreneurs Say Government's Microsoft Action Penalizes Success.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Apr. 4--Long before everyone loved to hate Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, they longed to be like him -- the teenage whiz-kid who dropped out of Harvard to create the most successful company in history. Apr. 4--Long before everyone loved to hate Microsoft chairman Bill ...
- Research articles 2000-04-03
- SAP LOSES VISIONARY AGASSI OVER CEO RIFT
- Shai Agassi's resignation from SAP in late March triggered a major realignment of the SAP executive board and has left industry pundits and customers alike wondering how the exit of the whiz kid will influence SAP's product strategy and road map. Agassi, Shai Agassi's resignation from SAP in late March...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- SAP loses visionary Agassi over CEO rift.(Insight: CRM TRENDS AND NEWS ANALYSIS)
- Shai Agassi's resignation from SAP in late March triggered a major realignment of the SAP executive board and has left industry pundits and customers alike wondering how the exit of the whiz kid will influence SAP's product strategy and road map. Aga Shai Agassi's resignation from...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Is Honesty the Best Career Policy?
- Is Honesty the Best Career Policy?Honesty to WHO or WhomShould one be honest in an interview? As companies today are using private services to verify your past, you have to tell the truth about where you were and when. BUT at that point the gloves come off. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Legg Mason taps ex-Fidelity whiz kid.(Reverse Spin)
- Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr.
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- Six-Year-Old Musician Ethan Bortnick Releases His Debut CD and DVD on Amazon.com With CreateSpace Disc on Demand
- Piano Whiz Kid Also Scheduled to Debut on "The Martha Stewart Show"
- Research articles 2007-11-08
- Tiger Woods cautions Wie not to rush her development
- LOS ANGELES, AFP ? Tiger Woods has a word of caution for golf's whiz kid Michelle Wie -- don't rush things. "I look at the philosophy that you also need to learn the art of winning," Woods says on his web site TigerWoods.com. "My dad was a big...
- Research articles 2004-01-23
- William Kennedy's Greatest Game
- One can only imagine what secret pleasure Michael Dukakis took from the defeat of Mark Green in New York's recent mayoral race. Another overage whiz kid who gives brains a bad name, Green ran a campaign of such spectacular, extended ineptitude that he has made Dukakis seem, in memory, a...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- . . . And tomorrow?
- So what to do with Bobby Jindal? Although there are certainly some Republicans in Louisiana who are disappointed in their standard-bearer because of his losing campaign for governor, it is difficult to find any GOP activist who believes that Jindal-at 32, a "whiz kid," the son of Indian immigrants, and...
- Research articles 2003-11-24
- WHIZ KID
- Spiky-haired, 6-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes disappeared from the comics in 1995. The 10-year run of dare-devil sledding, baby-sitter terrorizing and quirky moral observations ended when his creator, Bill Watterson, retired and threw in his pen. Now -- if you haven't noticed,...
- Research articles 2004-03-21
- Kept back — Detmer relegated to career as backup
- His fate has been sealed for a long time now. Ty Detmer, the Heisman winner and BYU legend, will be remembered in the pro ranks as a career backup, stuck on the sideline behind the latest whiz kid. He has played in only four regular-season games in the...
- Research articles 2005-01-15
- Starr Gazing: Boston, Philly Fans Agree: Pats Win
- I don't begrudge Philadelphia sports fans their very special brand of fear and loathing. I do resent, however, when they try to appropriate Boston's historic sports blight, casting their Eagles, in hopes of riding the karmic wave, as the Boston Red Sox of the National Football League (with Terrell Owens,...
- Research articles 2005-02-03
- Cha Cha Cha
- Scott Jones, CEO, ChaCha All or nothing--that's what Scott Jones used to believe. As a twentysomething, the former MIT research scientist kept a futon under his desk so commuting wouldn't deter him from developing the patents that would, in the 1980s, make computerized voice mail as essential to telecom as...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Gail Shister | A four-hour 'Today' show? Could happen
- In morning TV, size matters. At least to NBC. Today, the top-rated morning show for more than a decade and NBC's most profitable program, may expand from three to four hours, NBC Universal TV czar Jeff Zucker says. "This brand continues to be unbelievably strong," says Zucker, who made his...
- Research articles 2006-08-30
- Fairfax online with expensive small pond.
- Byline: Helen Westerman and Christian Catalano Mar 07, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- John Fairfax Holdings has acquired the most popular New Zealand NZ auction web site in ...
- Research articles 2006-03-07
- Tax office whiz-kid to stand trial over corruption, fraud.
- Jul 17, 2002 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- A former tax official in Australia will stand trial on fraud charges. Nick Petroulias is a former first assistant commissioner of taxation with the Australian Taxation Office ATO. On 17 July 2002, Petroulias was committed...
- Research articles 2002-07-17
