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Topic: CVS Corporation

  

Are You There God? It's Me Your Pharmacist

Saturday morning my mother and I spent an hour on the phone relishing in post-election blues. As we swapped frustrations across 2,000 miles (I'm in the blue state of New York; She's blue in the red state of Florida), she informed me ...READ»

Do You Live in a Clone Town?

The more I travel these days, the more I feel as though as I never left home. The Detroit burbs look just like the Chicago burbs, which look just like the Atlanta burbs. The Gap? Check. Subway? Check. CVS? Check. Kinko's? Check. It's ...READ»

Fast-Food Medicine

Retail health clinics are dotting the landscape like Starbucks, frustrating doctors but delighting patients. Is this the beginning of the answer to our national health-care crisis?READ»

Some Day My Prints Will Come

In a smart step to increase its market visibility and bridge the traditional and digital photography worlds, Kodak is introducing a new self-service kiosk that can develop a roll of film in about five minutes. They will be tested in ...READ»

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Using CSR to Motivate Gen Y and Boomer Employees

Boomers and Gen Y, the largest cohorts in the workplace, both want to “contribute to society through their labor,” according to a new article in Harvard Business Review by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Laura Sherbin, and Karen Sumberg, of ...READ»

The Inflatable Union Rat

Dissecting the inflatable union rat.READ»

Always Low Prices -- Is There Always a Catch?

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) announced this morning that it will begin to sell 291 types of generic prescription drugs -- charging only $4 for a month's worth of prescriptions that would otherwise cost as much as $30. The news leaves me ...READ»

EmpowHer Launches Free Health Events for Women

There's a long story behind this launch post. I'm on the advisory board of EmpowHer.com, a women's health site founded by a friend of mine, Michelle Robson, who had an awful experience with the health care system and decided ...READ»

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Fast 50 Follow-Up: 10 Companies We Missed

When we last checked in with innovation expert Dev Patnaik, CEO of growth-strategy firm Jump Associates, he was chiding us for heralding company innovations--as opposed to innovative companies--on last year’s Fast Company 50. ...READ»

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Big Pharma or The Drug Dealer - Pick Your Poison

It was 1986, I remember it well: Nancy Reagan was standing at a podium in front of the White House wearing a white suit.  Within camera shot was as many poor, inner-city, underprivileged kids as they could fit on a bus. They were ...READ»

" Mom, look! Cool!"

Dylan's Candy Bar is heaven on earth for the sweet-tooth set.READ»

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Advertisers Target Captive Audiences

If screens seem to be popping up everywhere, that's because they are. In a DVR world, advertisers are reaching outside the home for today's most desirable audience: a captive one. Anywhere people might be waiting equals an opportunity to air short-form content and advertising. Tune in to the forefront of "advertainment." READ»

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NBC: Not Broadcasting Comedy

It's my favorite time of year, folks: Upfront week. This is when the TV networks display their new wares for the fall season and get advertisers to commit to paying for all of it. $9 billion is expected to change hands in the coming ...READ»

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God and Mammon at Harvard

Harvard's B-school has some competition across the Charles River: the divinity school, which is turning out a new flock of spiritually minded business leaders.READ»

People and Technology - MicroStrategy Inc.

"We live in an ignorant world. Our mission is to purge that ignorance."READ»

Streamline Delivers the Goods

Two things can be said with certainty about business on the Web: Companies are playing for real stakes, and winning companies are playing by different rules.READ»

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The Real Story Behind Bisphenol A

How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco's tactics to sow doubt about science and hold off regulation of BPA, a chemical in hundreds of products that could be harming an entire generation.READ»