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...lucky daughter: I got to be the final caregiver for both my parents. For almost 12 years I cared for them and handled their affairs. My mother passed away four years ago, and 13 months later my father passed away--in my home, with the wonderful assistance of hospice. I always kept my sisters, who were not able to move to help our parents in the way I did, informed about the true medical condition of our parents, and they have always recognized and appreciated what...
...Chuck E. Cheese tokens for a digital generation.) Once the purchase is complete, the recipient gets a notification on her wall to show off to all her friends, and if she provides her address to the third-party vendor, the gift shows up on her doorstep a few days later...
...reaction from my ex was worse. She managed to delete the notification from her Facebook wall in - I timed this - less than a minute. She told me later, amid much profanity, that there was "No way" she'd have the flowers delivered, because she didn't want to explain they were from her "weirdo ex-boyfriend." RealGifts assures me refunds are possible...
Indeed. Yet six months later, Barrett is being hailed as the leader Cardinal needed to restore its vigor. It came at a critical time, given that any health care company has to be in a position to pivot off of whatever health care reform plan emerges from Congress. His strategy? Return to basics: strong leadership, better customer service and refocusing on what the $95.9 billion company has always done best--supply-chain management. "This is an entirely different company," says Mike Lynch, who heads Cardinal's medical-supply unit. "We've seen a much needed reinfusion of capital into...
Cardinal's somewhat haphazard acquisition strategy proved difficult to manage, though. Cardinal started as a small Ohio food distributor in 1971, and eight years later, founding CEO Robert Walter moved the company into pharmaceuticals. Over the next two decades, he transformed the firm into a $75 billion conglomerate. "It was a very entrepreneurial company, founded out of the back of this Harvard Business School guy Bob Walter's car," says Lisa Gill, a JPMorgan analyst who has covered Cardinal since 1999. "People talked about Cardinal wanting to be the GE of health care...