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Paxil Once Again Stalks Potential Victims

The safety of drugs these days is a major issue not only with patients, but in the legal arena as med mal attorneys fight for justice for victims. READ MORE

Pharmaceutical blogs bring customers closer

In the super-regulated world of pharmaceuticals, some of the world’s largest corporations are using digital media to get closer to customers and advocates. GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson are using blogs to engage in ...READ MORE

GlaxoSmithKline Fights Malaria in Africa with Satellites

Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ MORE

Do you Have a Coach Yet?

The business and life coaching industry has skyrocketed in size over the past seven years. Places like Coach U and the ICF are cranking out coaches faster than business schools used to produce MBA's. According to Coach U, companies ...READ MORE

GlaxoSmithKline Signs $540 Million Deal for Nicotine Vaccine

Four years ago, the startup Nabi Biopharmaceuticals began testing a promising nicotine vaccine called NicVax with the aid of $4.1 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Earlier today, the vaccine received a booster ...READ MORE

Outsourcing World Summit

Outsourcing means jobs go overseas, right? Not always. At this Orlando summit, Monty Hamilton, CEO of Atlanta-based Rural Sourcing, will explain how U.S. firms can save by moving work to the South. Rural Sourcing has centers in ...READ MORE

Medicine Man: Andrew Grant

What makes you feel good now looks even better.READ MORE

Openness, Generosity, and Accountability

Where do those attributes fit in today's bustling business world? Leaders at a recent conference learned firsthand.READ MORE

How to Work with More Meaning...and Get Paid

Why do you work?  As we emerge from the rubble of the Great Recession, more people from a variety of sectors and in different stages of life are searching for a more meaningful “why” behind the work they do. Paying the bills ...READ MORE

Buy.ology: Why We Buy What We Do

It seems that I spend a great deal of time these days talking about the subconcious emotional drivers of designs. It turns out that there are very good reasons we all "buy" what we do. Reasons that are tied into our biology, ...READ MORE

Can CEOs Cure Cancer?

Big Pharma execs may not know more about the disease than the rest of us, but a group of them are using their power to fight it.READ MORE

Social Capitalists: Profiles

Path (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) Founded: 1977 Seattle, Washington Christopher J. Elias, President www.path.org Entrepreneurship: A Innovation: A+ Social Impact: A+ Aspiration: A- Sustainability: A- ...READ MORE

Traditional Chasm Market Segmentation - Moving to the Max Segmentation Strategy

 Whole books have been written about market segmentation, so it is difficult to summarize it on a page. One of the leading segmentation methodologies, that became part of teaching at the Harvard Business School, is what we lived ...READ MORE

Why You Should Start a Company in... Philadelphia

Fiesty as ever, Philly's famous Brotherly Love now extends to the innovating business community.READ MORE

Spare No Expense

Even the staunchest budget "hawk" understands that you can't cost-cut your way to growth.READ MORE

When The Thrill Is Gone, So Are They

Do you help your employees find the work they love to do? It may not always be easy, and you may even risk losing some of them. But if you don’t partner with your talented employees to find work they are passionate about, you will no doubt lose them anyway.READ MORE

Debbie Weil, Corporate Blogging Expert

Debbie Weil is known as the corporate blogging expert, and though she's no doubt earned the title -- she's worked for clients including GlaxoSmithKline and the American College of Radiology -- she can't help but find humor in the name.READ MORE

Individual Health Insurance Reform Weekly : EasyToInsureME : July 23, 2009

Last week will go down as a truly significant week in health care reform. The House leadership unveiled its 1,000+ page bill and announced that the three committees of jurisdiction would immediately begin mark-up sessions designed to get a composite bill to the House floor by the end of July. Late last week the House Ways and Means Committee approved the House bill 23 to 18READ MORE

To Vaccinate, or not to Vaccinate

Nothing causes an uproar in this country more than the sex lives of young girls: Who's doing it? And where? How many? And why? How young? And what can be done about it? There's always some crisis when it comes to women and sex. But ...READ MORE

Project: You

Sure, most work today is project work. But which projects are worth working on? And how does a series of projects become a career?READ MORE

Tech Companies Still Top the Green Charts

Newsweek magazine may be in trouble, but its annual green rankings are one of the most comprehensive attempts to rank major companies based on sustainability. How does your company measure up?READ MORE

The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free

When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.READ MORE

Wyeth's Multibillion-dollar Biotech Bet

Drugmaker Wyeth bet billions on biotech, transforming its culture and boosting profits.READ MORE

Playing Kings: The CEO and President

In the third post of their 7-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how CEOs are coping with the new wild cards dealt by environmental, social and governance challenges.READ MORE

Now That We Have Your Complete Attention ...

Here's Fast Company's eight-point program for presentations guaranteed to keep your listeners on the edge of their seats.READ MORE