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...trainee--but one with a rocket strapped to his back. A year after joining Sandoz, Vasella became product manager for a new drug named Sandostatin, approved to treat a rare pancreatic cancer. The head of Sandoz's U.S. pharmaceutical unit joked that Vasella could consider his job well done if he made Sandostatin a $5 million product, a pittance in the branded-drug business. Vasella realized that to make Sandostatin a commercial success, he had to find new uses for it. And he believed he could do that only by radically changing the game...
Coordinating some 200 task forces and 600 project teams, Vasella set about knocking heads together. By the time he was done, 12,500 people had been laid off; an $80 million venture fund helped ex-employees with good ideas start businesses. He got the unions to accept performance-based compensation, a concept new to Swiss industry at the time. "Ex-Sandoz people say there is more freedom," says Novartis' elected employee representative Kathrin Amacker. "Ex-Ciba people say there is more drive and deadline consciousness...
...here, she had to learn how to move.”The transition to college basketball was a difficult one for Moretzsohn, who also had to learn to adjust to the increased level of physical play at the collegiate level.“You can only imagine what is done to her body on the court,” Delaney-Smith says with a grimace. “It’s a physical game anyway inside, but it’s just going to hit her in different parts of her body.” But after a frustrating...
...will also be assuming many new and diverse roles on the court. Playing at point guard, shooting guard, and small forward, Lin’s versatility will be tested in each and every game. “I’m just trying to do whatever needs to be done that day to win,” Lin says. “Sometimes it might be passing, rebounding, defense, scoring—I’m just going to try to do what the team needs that game.” His adaptability, coupled with his boundless energy...
...seventh, while Lindys thinks it will finish dead last.None of this matters to the people who will actually decide where Harvard places.“Our goal is to win the league,” junior guard Drew Housman says. “We all think it can be done. We don’t pay attention to whatever anyone else is saying. We think if we go out and play our game, we have a good enough team to win it. That’s all we are talking about.”Housman and his teammates have good...