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...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," he says. Or, rather, it's done just what the doctor ordered...
...school sweetheart in 1978 and completing medical school and a string of residencies, Vasella started as an attending physician at a university hospital in Bern in 1984. Though he loved working closely with patients, it bothered him that he knew little about business, especially because he had begun to invest modestly in stocks. Four years of psychoanalysis, Vasella says, helped free him "from the rules and obligations one imposes on oneself" and give him the courage to leap into a new career. In 1987 he sought the advice of Max Link, the well-connected and accessible head of the drug...
...couldn’t do my work for CNN if I was a complete snob about this. The challenge is to invest these cases with some of your knowledge,” he said...
...narrative. In doing so, they successfully maintain the author’s voice—keeping the film a philosophical thriller instead of just a thriller—and leave viewers with possibly the year’s best film. Few directors wield the imagination or the courage to invest in the power of silence the way the Coens have in “No Country.” One of its most noticeable features is what lacks: a soundtrack. Virtually free of artificial sound, viewers experience the barren vistas of south Texas as McCarthy intended—an antediluvian...
...reportedly invested $20 million in this building, why invest so much in the Japanese market when it is not performing so well? I think when the market is not good is the time when you have to do something, you have to push it and restart in a different way. The young Japanese consumer has a big appetite for fashion. They are more open and free to shop; it is not such an inhibiting activity here anymore. Even if they cannot afford to buy a designer dress, they will buy, for example, a smaller item...