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DEATH REVEALED. Philip D. Estridge, 47, easygoing, exuberant IBM vice president and "intrapreneur" who between 1980 and 1984 moved with record speed and scant respect for sacrosanct tradition to build the company's personal computer division into a 10,000-employee, $5 billion-a-year concern with one hit product, the revolutionary PC, and one miss, the hapless PCjr, whose production was stopped last April for lack of sales; in the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 near Dallas...
...Consumer-product companies have been going private as well. Mary Kay Ash, chairman of Mary Kay Cosmetics, last May began a $300 million buyout of her company. In August, San Francisco-based Levi Strauss, the largest brand-name clothing maker in the U.S., was acquired for $1.48 billion by a group headed by corporate executives and descendants of the company's founder...
...potential to attack cancer or stop heart attacks. Now the genetic engineering companies are out to prove that they can work the same magic in the marketplace, turning those wonder drugs into profitmakers. Last week Genentech, an industry leader based in south San Francisco, began selling its first drug product for humans: Protropin, a growth hormone used to treat dwarfism in children. Genentech had previously developed Humulin, a synthetic insulin, but licensed it to an established pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, which put the drug on the market. Protropin, which is expected to generate annual sales of $40 million...
...cadre of experienced managers with M.B.A.s, including some of his old colleagues from Bristol-Myers. He also pared back Cetus' rambling research to focus on projects with the most commercial potential. The company is now testing its version of interferon, a promising anticancer agent, and hopes to have the product on the market in two years. But at least five other firms, including Genentech and Geneva-based Biogen, are also in the interferon race...
...medical school, Greenfield was then a lab technician in North Carolina, and Cohen was a pottery teacher at a school in New York. After taking a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making from Penn State, the two set up shop in Burlington and gradually began to peddle their product to restaurants and stores in the area. Their chief promotional gimmick was a free sample. They once gave away ten tons of ice cream to a man who built the "world's largest sundae" for The Guinness Book of World Records...