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Since 2001 the competitive strategy expert has focused much attention on the healthcare system. Three years ago he co-authored “Redefining Health Care” with Elizabeth O. Teisberg, and his research underlies health care delivery curriculum at Harvard and other universities...
...hard to tell if the skeptics are right. China is like the proverbial elephant being described by blind men: anyone can say anything depending on which part they happen to be touching. Jim O'Neill, head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, is dismissive of the doubters. "I've seen similar sorts of stories about 20 times this year," O'Neill said last week during an interview on Bloomberg TV. "These are generally written by people that obviously just don't follow closely or study China." He maintained that, if anything, China's economic strength is being underestimated...
...that he minds doomsday predictions. "I like seeing those stories because this tells me that there are [still] so many unbelievers out there," said O'Neill, who has been visiting China for 20 years. "There will [then] be plenty of people to realize the power of recovery, and more importantly as it relates to China, to start to recognize what is quite simply the most important economic story of our generation and quite possibly our children...
...October, 54% of Chinese residents reported in a China Daily survey that they would not get the H1N1 vaccine because of concerns about the shot's safety. That prompted the director of the World Health Organization's Beijing office, Dr. Michael O'Leary, to tell the newspaper, "The H1N1 vaccine is one of the safest vaccines being used. When it's available to me, I would not hesitate to get the vaccine developed and produced by China." (Read "H1N1: Hitting the Young, Riskier...
...other words, "If you put one high-fare, loss-making airline together with another high-fare, loss-making airline," Michael O'Leary, head of low-cost rival Ryanair, told Bloomberg, "you will get an airline with higher fares making much bigger losses...