Word: orientedness
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Chung Mong Koo, chairman of South Korea's Hyundai Motor, carefully scrutinizes a newly designed gearshift lever for the automaker's Sonata sedan while his entire senior management team hovers around, anxiously awaiting his approval. The execs are justifiably edgy. Engineers added a plastic plate beneath the shifter to prevent...
Indeed, regulators in the free-market-oriented Reagan era seem convinced that bigger is often better. "Reagan's people have allowed the pendulum to swing much, much further in the direction of free and easy merger opportunities," says Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. "Businessmen see the...
Many experts think that takeovers will benefit the development of biotechnology. Most of the 200 or so small, research-oriented companies in the industry may need the resources and expertise of a large corporation to bring their discoveries quickly and successfully to market. The question remains whether or not biotech...
Harvard Medical School placed first in the research-oriented division, commanding a sizable 18-point lead over the next-ranked institution, Johns Hopkins University.
“It just sounded like such a wonderful way to combine something that is individual-oriented and a personal experience with something that is a much bigger, greater cause,” she said.