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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Reply Guy Harris says: February 28, 2010 at 10:47 am Brian, First, thanks for sharing your viewpoint. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. I appreciate your time investment in this discussion. Never show again.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Reply Guy Harris says: February 28, 2010 at 10:47 am Brian, First, thanks for sharing your viewpoint. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. I appreciate your time investment in this discussion. Never show again.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Downstream, it works closely with local distributors to reach widely disparate health care facilities, pharmacies, and other distribution channels, such as a production and marketing partnership with Medpro in South Africa and a minority stake in Quality Chemical Associates in Uganda. Cipla is not a stranger to M&A either.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety.

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. Many of these jobs – those dealing with computers, for example – could not have been foreseen in 1963, since computers were still primitive and rare.