Word: cellular
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What's wrong with this picture? When George Fisher became the head shutterbug at Eastman Kodak four years ago, things instantly looked brighter for Big Yellow, the world's largest photographic filmmaker. Fisher, who dialed up a triumphant turnaround at cellular-phone and microchip giant Motorola, planned to re-vitalize stodgy Kodak (1996 sales: $15.97 billion) with a burst of digital-age products. Instead of bloody downsizings, Fisher would restore Kodak's faded glory through the magic of growth...
...record images on microchips for computer users. But the field is already glutted with dozens of rivals, from traditional camera makers such as Canon and Nikon to Silicon Valley giants like Hewlett-Packard. Fisher counters that naysayers saw few profits in the 1980s in the business of cellular phones and pagers, which have grown into two of Motorola's most lucrative products. Says he of his record for confounding such doubters: "Been there. Done that...
Members of Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology unanimously praised Ptashne and his work...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biography James C. Wang, whose laboratory is located next to Ptashne's old Harvard laboratory, said he views Ptashne's resignation from the Harvard faculty as "a big loss to Harvard," but said that he thought his award was "a wonderful thing...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Tom Maniatis, who worked with ptashne as a post-doctoral fellow and collaborated with him on much of his research, including Ptashne's investigation of repressors, said that the award to Ptashne is "long overdue...