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AIDS is your business.

If your company operates in a developing country, AIDS is your business. While Africa has received the most attention, AIDS is also spreading swiftly in other parts of the world. Russia and Ukraine had the fastest-growing epidemics last year, and many experts believe China and India will suffer the next tidal wave of infection. Why should executives be concerned about AIDS? Because it is destro...

Solutions for Your Analytical Business

The growing market of herbal remedies worldwide could pose severe problems to consumers’ health due to the possible presence of potentially harmful, undeclared synthetic substances or analogues of prescription drugs. The present work shows a simple but effective approach to unequivocally identify synthetic anorectic compounds in allegedly ‘natural’ herbal extracts, by exploiting Q-TOF LC/MS tec...

Your business in court--2005.

Finding your next core business.

How do you know when your core needs to change? And how do you determine what should replace it? From an in-depth study of 25 companies, the author, a strategy consultant, has discovered that it's possible to measure the vitality of a business's core. If it needs reinvention, he says, the best course is to mine hidden assets. Some of the 25 companies were in deep crisis when they began the proc...

What is Your Digital Business Strategy?

W hat's your digital business strategy? How should you strategically manage your digital resources? Digital resources might present an opportunity for your business model, as they did for eBay, Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Or these resources might threaten your business model, as they have for Kodak, Borders, Blockbuster, and the New York Stock Exchange. Global spending on IT resources exceeds ...