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...drugmakers have found some allies in the Chinese courts. Pfizer won a landmark trademark-infringement case in October when a Chinese court ordered a domestic company to stop using Pfizer's logo on its website and fined the offender $25,000. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella, for one, cites China's "enlightened" patent laws as the reason the Swiss drugmaker will continue to invest in China vs. India, where a court recently rejected the company's attempt to protect a patent on a leukemia drug. "China has made tremendous progress and taken the steps to show they have the right priorities...
Yesterday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Robert Kaplan became the interim CEO of the group responsible for investing Harvard’s endowment, Harvard said in a statement last Friday...
Professor of Human Relations Jay W. Lorsch—one of Kaplan’s colleagues at the Business School—described the interim CEO as “immensely capable” and said that the decision to appoint someone already loyal to Harvard could lead to more continuity at HMC and that the move fits both parties well...
Appointing an interim CEO two months into the search process could be an indication that the search committee—comprised of the 12 members of HMC’s Board of Directors—is concerned about finding a full-time replacement before El-Erian departs...
Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors looking for a blank slate. Ophelia the flapper! Macbeth the CEO! King Henry IV the Quarterback! Perhaps no playwright is more frequently a victim of hyper-ambitious, conceptual updates...