As questions go, it was short and to the point: “If you are so smart, why aren’t you rich?”That challenge, splashed across her daughter’s T-shirt, inspired Una Ryan to leave a medical research career, developing vaccines, to start her own business. “Being a medical researcher, I changed that statement to say, if you are so smart, why haven’t you saved more lives?,” said Ms. Ryan, at a lunch in Paris last month honoring finalists in this year’s Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, an annual competition for women entrepreneurs. Ms. Ryan was one of five winners of this year’s awards. More…

Source: International Herald Tribune