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Reality Check: Wall Street?s View of Medtronic
Once a runaway leader in innovation, the world?s largest medical device company has lately suffered from public mistakes and a drought of new products. On Medtronic’s competitive position: In two of Medtronic’s largest categories ― cardiac rhythm disease management and spine...
Tags: Innovation, Medtronic Inc., Wall, Hawkins, Leadership, Strategy, Management, The Decisive Moment, Medtronic, Bill Hawkins, Raj Denjoy, Thomas Weisel, Medical Device, Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-10-05
The Price Medtronic Paid
Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins says that his decision in 2007 to recall the company?s Sprint Fidelis lead was the hardest he has ever made in his career. But it was even harder on the company. The day that Bill Hawkins announced that Medtronic...
Tags: Medtronic Inc., Federal Government, Government, The Decisive Moment, Medtronic, Bill Hawkins, Wall Street, Market Share, Morale, FDA, Medical Device Safety Act, Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-10-05
Bill Hawkins: How I Made the Toughest Call of My Career
In an exclusive interview with BNET, Medtronic?s Bill Hawkins explains how and why he ordered the recall that shocked his industry. ...
Tags: Medtronic Inc., Physician, Career, Physician Advisory Board, The Decisive Moment, Medtronic, Bill Hawkins, Sprint Fidelis, Medical Device Manufacturing, Cait Murphy, Bill Hawkins, as told to Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-10-05
Reality Check: How Wall Street Sees Korn/Ferry
Research analyst Mark Marcon evaluates Korn/Ferry under Gary Burnison?s leadership. Is the Whitehead Mann Acquisition Likely to Succeed? I think [CEO Gary] Burnison’s sense is even if the worst isn’t completely over, the worst of the worst has probably passed and the longer-term...
Tags: Balance Sheet, Downturn, Korn/Ferry, Whitehead Mann, Gary Burnison, Balance Sheets, Leadership, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, The Decisive Moment, Headhunting, Wall Street, Acquisition, Merger, M&A, Mark Marcon, Robert W. Baird and Company, Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-10-20
The Headhunter Goes Hunting
Korn/Ferry?s Gary Burnison focused on the numbers in acquiring Whitehead Mann during the downturn. ...
Tags: Acquisition, Korn/Ferry, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Balance Sheets, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Gary Burnison, Whitehead Mann, Headhunting, Downturn, Recession, The Decisive Moment, Gary Burnison, as told to Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-10-20
How Korn Ferry Got Married
When most other CEOs in the executive search fields were cutting back, Korn/Ferry?s Gary Burnison went shopping. The key: trusting his gut as much as the financials.Headhunting is a cyclical industry, which is another way of saying that Korn/Ferry has had a very rough 18 months: Its clients were doing...
Tags: Acquisition, CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Balance Sheets, Corporate Law, Recruitment & Selection, Investment, Finance, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Whitehead Mann, Executive Search, Korn/Ferry, Headhunting, The Decisive Moment, BNET Feature Package, Downturn, Recession, Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-10-20
The Decisive Moment: A BNET Series
CEOs and other C-level executives are faced with difficult decisions every day that affect every part of the company. With ?The Decisive Moment? series, BNET aims to shed light on the thinking and the drama behind some of the biggest and gutsiest decisions in recent business history. ...
Tags: General Motors Corp., CEO, Strategy, Management, The Decisive Moment, Series, Bill Hawkins, Gary Burnison, Medtronic, Korn Ferry, Staci Baird
Articles 2009-10-20
Why MPG Isn't the Best Metric
Forget miles per gallon. What you really need to know is how much money it's going to cost you to get from point A to point B. ...
Tags: Car, Mile, Metric, Focus, The Decisive Moment, Richard Larrick, Ford Focus, Cash-for-Clunkers, Gallons per Mile, Fuel Efficiency, Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-11-11

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THE RIGHT MOMENT: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point In American Politics. - Review - book review
THE RIGHT MOMENT: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point In American Politics by Matthew Dallek Free Press, $25.00 AS YOU DRIVE PAST THE RONALD Reagan Federal Building in Washington to Reagan National Airport, it is sometimes hard to remember just how extreme, even radical, the Californian...
Tags: Californians, FINANCE, Governor, Taxes, White House
Research articles 2000-10-01
A Car Guy's Electric Moment
As a third-generation GMer, Jon Lauckner is fiercely committed to restoring greatness to America?s biggest car company. The VP of global product planning and the man behind the Chevy Volt, is determined to go big or go home. ...
Tags: Concept, Car, Vehicle, Concept Car, Battery, General Motors Corp., Car Guy, Chevy Volt, Gasoline Engine, Volt, Innovation, Car Industry, Prius, Lithium-Ion, Battery Cells, Hybrids, Fuel Economy, Bob Lutz, Virtual Technology, Detroit Auto Show, Jon Lauckner, as told to Cait Murphy, Jon Lauckner, as told to Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-11-11
EU farm subsidies under scrutiny at decisive moment
PARIS AFP — Revelations about the biggest beneficiaries of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy, the system of financial support for farmers in the 25-member EU, are making it increasingly difficult to defend the controversial policy during tense WTO negotiations on agricultural reform. "These revelations come precisely at the moment when...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, France, subsidy, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2005-11-03
Transition: Joe Rosenthal
Joe Rosenthal, 94 You may not recognize his name, but you know the picture he took on Iwo Jima in 1945. Even Cartier-Bresson, who spoke of "the decisive moment" in photography, never captured a more astonishing instant of formal beauty, aching tension and profound emotion than Rosenthal's...
Tags: Associated Press, image, photography
Research articles 2006-09-04
Party with a twist
IT was party time for David Beckham and his teammates at Old Trafford - but only after Derby rained on Manchester United's Premiership-winning parade. While there was more than a hint of anti- climax for the Red Devils, Derby themselves celebrated after a 1-0 victory secured their Premiership status. ...
Tags: Manchester United Ltd.
Research articles 2001-05-06
Don't blame Sun, says Keegan
MANCHESTER, England AFP ? Manchester City manager Kevin Keegan came to the defence of Sun Jihai after the Chinese international scored a bizarre own goal which gave Middlesbrough a 1-0 win. It was City's third successive Premiership defeat and it cames just three days after their disappointing UEFA Cup...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Research articles 2003-11-30
Football: Fabregas completes a week to remember
ARSENAL 2 LIVERPOOL 1 Steven Gerrard, the architect of the crucial move - Thierry Henry the finisher. It may read like a Roman Abramovich transfer fantasy, but instead it was the decisive moment in an extraordinary match that handed Arsenal the initiative once more...
Tags: Tottenham Hotspur Plc.
Research articles 2006-03-13
DTN News: Obama And The U.S. Strategy Of Buying Time
DTN News: Obama And The U.S. Strategy Of Buying Time *Source: By George Friedman STRATFOR NSI News Source Info KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - November 3, 2009: Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult. Not only is it a work in...
Tags: U.S., George W. Bush, strategy, Power
News items 2009-11-04
Arsenal face 'moment of truth', says Wenger
Arsene Wenger believes his Arsenal players, beaten 3-1 at Bolton Wanderers last Saturday, are in excellent condition to respond to that setback by emerging from a potentially decisive 12-day spell that starts at Fulham tonight with all their ambitions, including winning the Premiership, intact. "It is our...
Tags: Tottenham Hotspur Plc.
Research articles 2006-11-29
Japan cheers on Red Sox's Matsuzaka
TOKYO AFP — Japanese baseball fans on Monday cheered on Boston ace Daisuke Matsuzaka as the pitcher redeemed himself to lead the Red Sox to a decisive 11-2 victory and a World Series berth. "Matsuzaka gets his revenge at the moment of truth," ran the headline in the evening...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Boston, Games, Tokyo
Research articles 2007-10-22
Bush, Allawi, defend US strategy in Iraq
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush cautioned against showing weakness at a "decisive moment" in Iraq as he and visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warned of worsening violence there ahead of elections scheduled for January. The two leaders formed a unified front in the White House...
Tags: Bush, Iraq, strategy, White House
Research articles 2004-09-23
Nedved inspires lacklustre Juve
ROME AFP ? Pavel Nedved ensured title-holders Juventus kept the pressure on leaders AS Roma by scoring the decisive goal in a scrappy 1-0 win over Perugia as Serie A returned to action following its winter break. The recently-crowned European Footballer of the Year produced a memorable moment in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, league, Milan, team
Research articles 2004-01-06
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