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After marrying his high 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...
...dynamic culture for the merged company. Ciba's approach was almost academic and plagued by indecision. Sandoz had a command-and-control ethos that Vasella felt discouraged initiative. And there was the matter of strategic focus. Both companies were old chemical manufacturers that had sprouted pharmaceutical arms. Vasella knew his company's future was in pharmaceuticals. Sandoz had already divested most of its chemicals business; Ciba would be required to do the same...
...Brooks. Growing up near Cortina, he worked summers in the tool department of his father's eyeglass factory?a business that eventually grew into the market-leading Luxottica Group and made the family one of the richest in Italy. Though far from the U.S., Del Vecchio and his compatriots knew to revere Brooks Brothers, thanks to Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli and the legendary trips he took to New York City to load up on his favorite button-down shirts...
...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 freshman season, Moretzsohn knew what she had to do to reach the level of play she knew she was capable of.“In the offseason, I really just tried to work on conditioning and getting stronger because I knew that would help me once we got to games,” she says...
...reserves. Sophomore Dan McGeary, a transfer from New Hampshire, paced the subs with nine points, while freshman forward Kyle Fitzgerald added eight. “It comes to a point where it’s about pride,” Fitzgerald said. “The score, we knew we couldn’t come back, but it’s about each individual possession and making stops and showing that you’re not going to give up.” The result was even more lopsided than the last Stanford-Harvard matchup...