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Lotus (Position) 1-2-3

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A skeptic's search for a stress-busting workout regimen leads him to ... yoga.READ MORE›

This " Killer App" Saves Money and Lives

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Dr. Joe Prendergast is using the world's most powerful communications medium to address one of the world's most costly diseases -- diabetes. A case study in lifesaving digital innovation from DiabetesWell.READ MORE›

Only the Pronoid Survive

BY Harriet Rubin
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Forget Andy Grove's famous saying about the power of paranoia. Neo-Darwinist Helena Cronin says that competition today favors the generous.READ MORE›

Andy Grove to CDU: Why Are You Looking at Me?

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Consultant Debunking UnitREAD MORE›

Business Fights Back: Crisis and Confidence at Ground Zero

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Pamela Porter and her colleagues at Crisis Management International are the National Guard of therapists -- called to duty at a moment's notice to respond to disaster. Here's the remarkable story of their response to September 11.READ MORE›

Strategic Innovation: The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

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Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.READ MORE›

Miracle of Birth

BY Charles Fishman
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Looking for inspired leadership, passionate employees, unsurpassed productivity, and grateful customers? Forget the dispirited corridors of corporate America. Look instead to the bursting-with-life corridors of Parkland Memorial Hospital, a remarkable place that delivers more than 16,000 babies per year -- more babies than any other hospital in the country. That's more babies, in fact, than are born in 10 of America's states. There is still a way for giant organizations to do great work -- whatever "products" they deliver: the Parkland Way.READ MORE›

One Man's Drive... One Company's Courage

BY Charles Fishman
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Anglo American is by far the dominant company in a proud country that is being ravaged by AIDS. Dr. Brian Brink made it his business to transform Anglo's approach to saving lives in South Africa -- even if it meant incurring the wrath of a government that prefers to look the other way. Meet the determined face of corporate citizenship.READ MORE›

Pipe Dream?

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Rick Doblin has a prescription for fixing NIDA's ailing medical-marijuana program: establish an alternative.READ MORE›

The Cannabis Conundrum

BY Bill Breen
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As the founder of a British pharmaceutical company puts it, if it weren't called marijuana there would be an entire biotech business built around this plant. And that's just what's starting to happen (but not for the U.S. drug industry or the American patients these medicines might help).READ MORE›

Fantastic Voyage

BY Scott Kirsner
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Cyberonics' medical implant is the size of a chocolate-chip cookie, and it could--could--be worth $2.8 billion someday. But as this dramatic tale of innovation and entrepreneurship shows, saving lives can be one tough business.READ MORE›

The Thrill of Defeat

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Want to know how to motivate people to take on tough odds? Ask the folks in Pfizer's labs, where managing failure is a fine art and superhuman persistence an everyday habit.READ MORE›

Chatter

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Low-Carb Carnage.READ MORE›

Sugar Shock

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It's 3 p.m. You're getting sleepy. Can the latest "super" snacks perk you up?READ MORE›

Miracle Microbes

BY Tonya Garcia
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Innovation: Synthetic malaria cure Available: 2009 In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, scientists are transferring genes from microbe to microbe. This molecular manipulation is the basis of synthetic biology, which ...READ MORE›

Mani Sivasubramanian: Spamming for Good

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Our distinctive typing patterns could prove the key to digital security.READ MORE›

Another Rubber Tree Plant

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In the Arizona desert, the start of something big--or anyway something that feels good on your hands.READ MORE›

Can CEOs Cure Cancer?

BY Tinker Ready
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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›

Cease and De-Stress

BY Lauren Heist
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Studies suggest that lack of career control may cause more stress than long hours or work/life imbalanceREAD MORE›

IV. Workplace Injuries in the Dotcom Environment

BY Gregory J. Pleshaw
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Serial typists and renegade programmers face some of the most grueling workplace health risks in the new economy. Sitting blurry-eyed and slump-backed in front of a computer screen all day is no longer the cushy gig reserved for ...READ MORE›

Is Your Boss Killing You?

BY Drew Armstrong
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New research suggests that employees who see their bosses as unfair may be at significantly greater risk for heart disease. Here's how to fight back.READ MORE›

Cease and De-Stress

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The State of Healthcare 2008

BY Matthew Kantz
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This is the first installment of the state of healthcare in the United States, which is a great time because with the primaries heating up, it's great to look at what our candidates are using as rhetoric for solving the health care ...READ MORE›

Stress Much?

BY Heath Row
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Doug Hall mentions an interesting DDB Needham Life Style Study that indicates that the number of people who feel that they are "under a great deal of pressure most of the time" has grown from 40% in 1975 to 72% in 1996. His advice ...READ MORE›

In Your Jeans

BY Heath Row
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Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ MORE›

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