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...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...“If the internet and social media isn’t telling you a product is supposed to be hyped, then people don’t care about it,” said Mr Cohen....
...Patagonia v Donald Trump Late last year visitors to Patagonia’s website were greeted by a black page which stated “The President Stole Your Land.”...
...UK employers could draw on more such innovation from abroad....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...When Nike asked athletes to describe their most comfortable shoe experience, they described a sock. So Nike worked on making a highly engineered sock into a shoe out of yarn....
...“I realised I had only brought one shoe,” she recalls. “So I was meeting a senator and I told him, ‘I swear I will have two shoes in 10 minutes but right now I only have one’.”...
...These days it has become de rigueur for jewellery brands, shoe maestros and couture houses to descend upon Los Angeles ahead of awards season, occupying suites in all the major hotels and vying to dress...
...You may wish to explore general management programmes v specialising....
...“You get this picture of what’s happening really quickly,” says Frank Eliason, director of digital care at Comcast, the US cable television company....
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