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...eight years later, founding CEO Robert Walter moved the company into pharmaceuticals. Over the next two decades, he transformed the firm into a $75 billion conglomerate. "It was a very entrepreneurial company, founded out of the back of this Harvard Business School guy Bob Walter's car," says Lisa Gill, a JPMorgan analyst who has covered Cardinal since 1999. "People talked about Cardinal wanting to be the GE of health care...
...they do. "We have to strengthen quality control," said Shinichi Sasaki, executive vice president for quality. It's a startling admission from a company that made reliability its quest. Toyota will fix its car problem soon. Restoring its reputation is going to take a lot longer...
...still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car...
...meditates, practices yoga and produces a memoir preciously divided into 102 tiny chapters loaded with mantras, definitions and people chatting over cups of herbal tea. The sense is of an essay padded to book length, but some of these miniatures work. A charmingly self-aware one describes the family car being struck by a bottle of salad dressing. Shapiro is taken aback; she had not put salad dressing on her list of fears...
With their face paint and unruly orange wigs, these people seem not to realize there's no real reason to get all excited about watching people skate in circles. Of course, you could say the same about NASCAR, but at least the cars jostle against each other for prime position, and there's a finish line in sight. Plus, when a car whizzes by you at 200 m.p.h., there's an adrenaline rush. As for humans gliding by you at 35 m.p.h. on skates, they don't even register a breeze. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...