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by akg_67 11y ago
I would like to hear more about how discharging patient early and moderating pain medication is a sign of quality care? The author of original article mentioned staying in Indian hospital for 4 nights. Do you think a US hospital will keep y
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As a patient, US healthcare is terrible even if you have health insurance. Patient is at the bottom of totem pole in US healthcare, and just a number for doctors, hospitals and insurance companies and everyone else involved in the system. J
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by akg_67 11y ago
Evening News: ABC and NBC/CBS, local NBC/CBS TV station RSS Feeds: Bloomberg, Techcrunch Reddit: /r/news, /r/worldnews
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by akg_67 11y ago
IIRC, all headlines at the time of AOL-TW merger were new media (AOL) taking over old media (TW). What happened after the merger was primarily driven by dot-com crash and internal politics at AOL-TW. Typically, in a combined name scenario a
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by akg_67 11y ago
There were only couple of options for this merger to take place. 1. Dow and DuPont merge without any further plans to split. This wouldn't fly with regulators as combined entity will have too much power in US as well as worldwide. Not
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by akg_67 11y ago
DuPont "employee-first" culture hasn't been true since 90s. The business challenges at DuPont and the executive succession in 90s killed that image. DuPont used to be dream company to work for most new ChE graduates. I worked
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Forget about designer babies – gene editing won’t work on complex traits(theconversation.com)
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Details of Blackstone's due diligence to buy Dell(bizjournals.com)
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What You Can Do About Climate Change(nytimes.com)
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by akg_67 11y ago
Pursuit of market share vs pursuit of profit. Amazon seems to want to dominate every market they want to get into. While Walmart focused on dominating one market - retail. I compare Amazon story to Gold Rush. Once Amazon penetrates gold min
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by akg_67 11y ago
Amazon is following Walmart playbook. This is what Walmart did to make sure timely (Just-in-Time) Delivery between their warehouse and retail locations. There are business case study on how Walmart used their own freight truck network to be
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by akg_67 11y ago
I am not surprised with the position of author. That is the principle of law. His narrative seems to indicate other 10 jurors took the position you are advocating which goes against the principle of law. The fundamental principle of crimina
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by akg_67 11y ago
Just because Porsche and VW both makes car don't make them competitor. One is a luxury car maker and another is mass car producer. Adjacent market deals are common, direct competition are uncommon.
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by akg_67 11y ago
> It's pretty common for companies to get minority stakes in competitors to get an in. Do you have an example of this? It will be conflict of interest and may bring anti-trust issues. No competitor will allow access to confidential
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End of the Road? Impact of Interest Rate Changes on the Automobile Market(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
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I am well-aware of Starboard Value LP. The hedge fund is behind combination of Office Depot and Staples, changes at Olive Garden, etc. They are activist investor typically acquire influential stake in small-to-midsize company, take board se
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by akg_67 11y ago
The article missed the mother of all Lists that turned into billion dollar business during last dotcom boom - Yahoo! Directory. It is unfortunate that Yahoo! shut down a service with lot of potential specially in the mobile world. Just thin
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Billionaires show that going to a top college isn’t very important(washingtonpost.com)
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Pumpkin Pie in Miami: Thanksgiving Flight Patterns(nytimes.com)
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by akg_67 11y ago
You might want to look into coworking space. Also, talk to retail businesses serving other brick-and-mortar businesses specially the ones who do shipping, mailing, and provide mailboxes for other businesses. They tend to know about someone
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by akg_67 11y ago
Yep. Ask this question again, once you find a self-driving golf cart that navigates golf course without problems.
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Electric cars and the coal that runs them(washingtonpost.com)
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I was pretty sure someone will make a comment like yours. You didn't disappoint. You want to me to go to 3 different sites for Finance when I can get everything at Yahoo! You want me to go to 4 different sites for Sports when I can get
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Whitman: We signed a big deal to help Microsoft sell its Amazon-killer cloud(finance.yahoo.com)
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> If the company didn't exist, would there be a need to create it? Should I guess that you were not adult yet when Yahoo! started? When Yahoo! was founded, there was a need for WWW site directory, and Yahoo! filled that vacuum. It w
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by akg_67 11y ago
Or let users help you identify such pages. Instead of showing a vague message that indicates temporary failure due to time out, show the 404 with option to report the broken link. I miss picks because that's how I kept track performanc
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by akg_67 11y ago
Yahoo is textbook example of failure of online "advertising revenue" only company. Most such companies failed in last dot bomb. Only Yahoo survived because it was the largest with decent cash reserves. I am sure another dot bomb l
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by akg_67 11y ago
Daily fantasy has very annoying pop up on Yahoo! Sports. Also, I guess daily fantasy product resulted in killing of NCAAF and NFL picks against Yahoo! Experts and Yahoo! Users. The Picks link goes to message "something went wrong, we a
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by akg_67 11y ago
How do you list your open source contributions on your resume? Unless you are applying to SV based, startup, technology company, just listing open source contribution under "Open Source Contribution" title is not going to have muc
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by akg_67 11y ago
Negotiation is typically one of the topics covered in MBA curriculum. Some of the business school faculty also specializes in negotiations and do consulting on the side. You might be able to find negotiation training and seminar through suc

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