Word: core
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...They've ignored what we think is their core, their sweet spot.' CHARLES CALDAS, head of Merlin, a licensing agency that represents indie music labels. Caldas blasted MySpace for its new music service, which offered ad-revenue-sharing deals only to established, rather than independent, record labels...
...many minutes. Obligingly, my classmates and I traverse the dance floor like tragic auditioners for a hip-hop video. We, the participants in the High Heel Fitness Class & High Heel Walking Workshop, need more hips. We need to move our knees more. We need to tighten our core. We need to hold up our chests. We need, in short, to learn to walk again. This time in heels...
...Roche, the rush to innovate is palpable across the world's fifth largest pharmaceutical firm. In core research areas, scientists are mining new sources for inspiration, be it China or genetic engineering. At the same time, Roche's bosses, from their base in Basel, continue to lead the pack in acquiring expertise, a talent recently seen in the company's bid to control biotech superstar Genentech. Together, the two strategies form the nucleus of how Roche plans to deliver best-in-class products--faster, more cheaply and more reliably--to market. "The days of an attrition-based pipeline are over...
Schwan argues that taking over Genentech will, in fact, allow it to focus even more on the science at its core. But he also recognizes the need for freedom. "Genentech research needs to stay autonomous," Schwan says. "That is the key to preserving the specific culture they have...
...reality is that there are so few students at ROTC anyway, so tomorrow if Harvard begged and pleaded the Pentagon to bring it back on campus, they wouldn’t,” Mawn said. “What has evolved around the country is core sites like MIT that service several different schools. MIT has the critical mass and good facilities and classrooms for the courses and drilling and other activities. There is no critical mass at Harvard...