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...when she was hired by a regional bank to help develop its Latino clientele, she felt the need to prove that her ethnicity alone did not win her the job. "You kind of feel the need to let people know I got here on my own, not out of any quota," she says. "I knew how to sell that loan to Latinos and no one else knew that and I felt comfort in that. I knew my area...
...investors willing to stick it out, Zander has a bold vision, one that focuses on the next decade's hot new country rather than the next quarter's hot new product. Even as Motorola continues to develop high-end phones, he is pushing the company to go after the lowest end of the spectrum: a sub-$40 phone aimed at farmers and the striving urban masses in India, several nations in Africa and, to a lesser extent, China. But he doesn't want to sell just cheap phones; he wants to transform those markets into a new base of customers...
...then a private equity firm. He is trying to bring some of the Valley's spirit to the Chicago suburbs. He has challenged everyone--not just the mobile-phone designers--to come up with Motorola's next iconic product. Rau says his team was inspired by the Razr to develop the "zero-footprint base station," equipment for mobile-phone carriers that takes up less real estate than a standard cell-phone tower...
...project with Jeffrey A. Linder, instructor in medicine, and David W. Bates, professor of medicine, both at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. According to Soheyla D. Gharib, chief of medicine at University Health Services (UHS), UHS has been trying to mitigate the drug-resistant bacteria that can develop from over-prescription of antibiotics. This year, she said, UHS will begin measuring the rate at which it prescribes antibiotics. The study published yesterday states that physicians prescribed antibiotics in 53 percent of annual visits for sore throat. This exceeds the expected 15 to 36 percent prevalence of the only...
MOBY: I know a guy in Barcelona who has started a company to develop algorithms to determine whether a song is going to be a hit. It analyzes music to figure it out--and they're selling it to the record companies, and it's quite effective. If you expand on that, there's no reason you couldn't have your own personal search engine that understands your taste and can instantly analyze music based on a whole bunch of different, very subjective criteria to determine whether you might like...