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...blurring the distinction between competing car lines, GM was violating a cardinal rule of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the management genius who rescued the company from near bankruptcy in the early 1920s and ran it until 1956. In 1921, Sloan recommended that GM rationalize its products by manufacturing "a line of cars in each price area, from the lowest price up to one for a strictly high-grade quantity production car." After eliminating moribund models like the Scripps-Booth, and phasing out another, the Oakland, Sloan created the five-division lineup that has survived for nearly 60 years...
Harvard and MIT's Sloan School are the only institutions specializing in this area. With five or six professors each. Most schools have only...
...indiscriminate use of mastectomies for breast-cancer patients. At a recent conference in Venice, Italy, sponsored by Bristol-Myers, he and a number of other U.S. doctors reported on their successes with more limited treatment. According to Dr. Samuel Hellman, physician in chief of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, even patients with tumors as large as two inches in diameter may require nothing more than a lumpectomy followed by radiation. Though this approach involves removing even less tissue than Veronesi's method does, the results with some 350 patients seem to be just as good...
Despite the persuasive force of these studies, Hellman admits, "the consensus among U.S. physicians is still in favor of mastectomy." Indeed, his own institution, Sloan-Kettering, has long been a bastion of radical surgery. A survey conducted in 1980-81 by the National Cancer Institute found that 80% of breast cancer patients in Atlanta and Detroit were being treated with a modified radical mastectomy, an operation in which the breast and some chest muscle are removed. Up to 5% were still being treated with the old-style radical mastectomy, in which so much pectoral muscle is removed that arm motion...
...these traits. His humor, kindness, and wisdom have benefit text not only the Niemans, but many of the rest of us as well, Jim Thomson's departure is a deep loss for Harvard, and a great gain for any place lucky enough to have him. Cliff Sloan...