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When George Barrett was named CEO of Cardinal Health in August, the prognosis was grim. The nation's second largest drug distributor, Cardinal had lost a third of its value the previous year. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had suspended several of the company's licenses. What's more, the firm, based in Dublin, Ohio, was about to spin off its lucrative medical-tech arm, CareFusion, sparking a further double-digit drop in its stock price. In other words, Barrett deadpans, "we had some challenges...
Indeed. Yet six months later, Barrett is being hailed as the leader Cardinal needed to restore its vigor. It came at a critical time, given that any health care company has to be in a position to pivot off of whatever health care reform plan emerges from Congress. His strategy? Return to basics: strong leadership, better customer service and refocusing on what the $95.9 billion company has always done best--supply-chain management. "This is an entirely different company," says Mike Lynch, who heads Cardinal's medical-supply unit. "We've seen a much needed reinfusion of capital into...
...mail, Officer Justin Barrett, referred to Gates as a "jungle monkey.” The one-paragraph, page-long tirade was written in response to a column that was published in The Boston Globe in July about Gates' arrest...
Written while Segal was on leave from Yale in the late 1960s, the story follows the budding relationship between preppy Harvard student Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavilleri, who dies not long after their marriage...
...bulk of the inspiration for Oliver’s personality, while Gore’s relationship with his father, Senator Albert Gore, parlayed into Oliver’s difficulties with his own domineering father, according to statements Segal made in the 1990s, when Americans began to wonder whether Oliver Barrett IV was an alter-ego of Gore...