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...because of the lack of parts. "Unlike the airlines or steel, when you look at the automobile industry and the fact that the whole supplier base is connected - to Ford, Chrysler, Toyota - it will have a ripple effect on the entire industry," says Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, a bankruptcy expert at the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner, a law firm that represents some GM suppliers...
...Career expert Laurence Shatkin just wrote a book called 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs. It is well timed. Barbara Kiviat spoke with...
Working with Baxter, the FDA devised a test that now identifies OSCS in heparin. The FDA will deploy eight full-time staffers in China, including four inspectors and a senior technical expert in foods, medicines and medical devices. And working with its counterpart agency in Beijing--which FDA commissioner Andrew van Eschenbach acknowledges is primarily responsible for drug safety there--the FDA will now be able to do "more timely" inspections in China. In 2008 the FDA did all of 30 inspections in China...
...given a mission, resources and a deadline. "Then we let them go and do it," Butler says. Telecom giant Vodafone, which recently bought Ghana Telecom, is using CforC to help it find useful projects in Ghana to get involved in. CforC's team includes an African anthropologist, an academic expert on aid flow in Ghana and a former NGO executive. Says Vodafone chairman John Bond enthusiastically: "CforC works in some extremely difficult parts of the world, and they know what's needed. They're an enormously talented team." There may be a comfort factor too in that CforC...
...team concept also extends to the field. CforC, which is building a core staff of 20, can tap into a network of experts it has assembled, who number 30 so far and range from ex-officers and diplomats to former business executives and NGO operatives. For each project, it convenes small teams of staff and associates, mixing and matching skill sets to meet the client's needs. For example, Slim says, a team may have "a human-rights person, an environmentalist and a private-equity expert--now that's pretty wacky...