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...research strategy at Novartis is among the most productive in the industry. It invests 17% of drug sales in pharmaceutical R. and D., or $2 billion annually. Thanks to innovations in technology and management, Novartis carries its drugs through development in only two-thirds the time it takes the average drug company. Its tightly coordinated R.-and-D. and marketing efforts focus on areas, such as cardiovascular diseases, in which treatments are judged to offer the greatest potential for profit. Senior vice president for business development Paul Sekhri, who helped pick these areas by going systematically through some 980 categories...
...Erian took the helm of HMC after the departure of Jack R. Meyer and more than 30 other HMC employees in late 2005. In fiscal year 2007, El-Erian’s only full year as HMC president, Harvard’s investments earned returns of 23 percent, adding $5.7 billion to the endowment...
...journeying from Man’s first disobedience to Adam and Eve’s expulsion, felt relieved at the finish, but also accomplished because they had just undertaken a project of this magnitude. “I have never done anything like this,” said Sarah R. Harland-Logan ’10. “It was a one-of-a-kind experience. This was a man-trial by fire.” Said Woodring: “I’ve done similar things in terms of a physical nature, but not intellectual. This...
...drive a Chevy,” John R. Stilgoe proclaims. “It makes me sound like a common man.” The famously quirky visual and environmental studies professor says his black ’96 Suburban helps him blend into rural America on his annual summer field trips into the heartland...
...reaction development a team of people unparalleled in the history of chemistry, in my view,” Swager said in a telephone interview. The team now includes organic chemists Stephen L. Buchwald, Gregory C. Fu, Rick L. Danheiser, Timothy F. Jamison, and Mohammad Movassaghi, and inorganic chemists Richard R. Schrock, Christopher C. Cummins, and Jonas Peters...