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...restrictions down the road? Are drug and media companies headed down a slippery slope with Congress? "Give them an inch, they'll take a mile - there's concern about that," Bolling says. "There's no question the Congressmen will take it as far as they can. This is a platform for them. This is, 'I am here to save the American public from these big, bad pharmaceutical companies.' " (Waxman says he does not support a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Doomed? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...Since the Broad’s Genome Sequencing Platform originated largely from the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, the group consists primarily of MIT employees,” said Nicole M. Davis, the institute’s scientific communications specialist...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Broad Institute Cuts Staff | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...This will be a welfare administration," Sigurardóttir announced at a press conference on Wednesday during a meeting between the parties of the new coalition government to decide their new platform. Sigurardóttir also announced that the government's first task is to replace the central bank's directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland Picks the World's First Openly Gay PM | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...were only concerned with the success of their own region. There was some infighting, but mostly people just left one another alone. Michaels believed that the high-performance, horizontal model represented the best bet for the future. To drive his vision though his organization, he first created a "burning platform" for the change, which centered on business issues; he then shrewdly hooked his vision into Mars' core values. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson Straight from Mars | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...responsibility and power, so his new team knew he was coming from a place of respect for company values--and a solid track record of results. Past experience had taught Michaels that functional thinking and hidden agendas are classic behaviors exhibited by nonhigh-performing teams. More than a "burning platform" was needed to counter-act old habits and the natural tendency toward standpattism. Michaels' solution was to take his team through an "alignment"--an essential step in the transformation process to great business teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson Straight from Mars | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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