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Issue 67

February 2003

The Carly Chronicles

  • An Inside Look at Her Campaign to Reinvent HP

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  • Take the Cure

    Inside the world's largest, most advanced pharmacy.

  • Business Casual

    If Abercrombie Fitch were a place, what would it be?

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    The Purple Cow contest is now over. Thank you to those who submitted.

  • Strong Medicine

    It's time to face the harsh facts of life: This is the way it is. Now choose one of these four strategies for getting on with your work life.

  • Health and the Profit Motive

    Victoria Hale creates the country's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company.

  • Wireless for the Clueless

    Everything you need to know to get untethered, at home and on the road.

  • In the hot seat

    Who: Gary LovemanTitle: CEO, Harrah's Entertainment Inc.Where: Las Vegas, NevadaChallenge: Come up aces on Harrah's consumer retail strategy

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  • The future is all about the flow

    The seventh-annual gathering of Doors of Perception wonders, What does Heraclitus have to do with design?

  • GM Goes Off-Road

    Creating Hummer meant breaking the old rules -- and putting together a new team.

  • Marketing on $0 a Day

    Money's scarce, but results still matter. Here's how to get your message out.

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    Thanks for voting! You're now eligible for a free copy of Seth Godin's new book, Purple Cow.

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  • Marketing Plan for a Marketing Book

    Loyal readers will remember that I used permission marketing techniques to market my book Permission Marketing. If you wrote to: free@permission.com (it still works), you get the first four chapters of the book for free. I ended up with an astonishing 150,000 plus requests, and it made the book successful.

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  • The Past, Present, and Future of Hewlett-Packard

    George Ander's inside account of Carly Fiorina and the reinvention of Hewlett-Packard is the most recent in a collection of essays, articles, and interviews that draw on the extraordinary history and imposing challenges at one of America's greatest corporations. Read through the following resources on one of the most dramatic transformation stories of our time.

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  • Speed-o-Meter

    Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.

Columns

  • Can Business Escape the Price Vice?

    Wall Street is a gigantic promotion machine, always exhorting the greater fool to buy some paper at a slightly higher price. Now, after a grim two years during which the reputations of virtually all of the major investment houses and financial-services supermarkets were diminished, if not seriously damaged, the great machine is kicking back into gear.

  • How Do Leaders Deal With Loss?

    Adman extraordinaire Jay Chiat once proudly told me his secret for getting people to take his calls. "I call the person's secretary and say, 'Tell X it's his doctor, and I have the results of his tests.' X rushes to the phone; it never fails," he said. Ten years later, he got one of those calls himself, except it wasn't a hoax. It was news of his own cancer. What's the worst call a person in power, at the top of his game, can get? "Hello, I have the results of your tests, and you have a brain tumor."

  • Want to Know How She Does It?

    This month, Anne exchanges email with Allison Pearson, author of the best-selling novel I Don't Know How She Does It.

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