Building financial resilience through strategic planning
Adam Campbell May 16, 2024 8:21 am
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Schering-Plough will pay $250 million to the U.S. government this month—the first portion of a $500 million penalty—after federal regulators found the drug giant violated dozens of manufacturing rules in the last several years. Abbott Laboratories three years ago got nailed for $100 million for failing to address a string
Think you have integration indigestion? While Hewlett-Packard corporate tackles its mega-merger with Compaq, smaller groups within HP have been wrestling since well before the merger with hefty integration efforts of their own. Though small by comparison, they’re massive by most scales and involve some of the latest Web integration tools
In “Managing Project Uncertainty—From Variation to Chaos” (M.I.T. Sloan Management Review, Winter 2002), three business school professors describe a continuum of risk onto which they say every project falls. Take this quiz, created by Baseline, to find out what risks your project faces—and what management techniques you’ll need to combat
TRUE FALSE My company generates documents and data in XML format. We use e-commerce applications based on XML. We have terabytes of content that we need to index. The formatting of our data is as important as the data itself. Note: This quiz requires at least Microsoft IE 4.0,
A year ago, the idea would have seemed a relatively innocent exercise of freedom of the press—and the freedom to move about this country. But sitting in a deli a few steps from the New York Stock Exchange, mixed feelings were the order of the day. Across the tiny table
You could call it a security Mayday. Imagine Best Buy’s surprise when it found on May 1 that customers’ credit card data and other transaction information at some of its 1,900 stores had been left vulnerable to electronic snooping, thanks to the use of portable point-of-sale (POS) terminals connected to
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Rumors of renewed economic growth haven’t reached the enterprise software market. And according to analysts at business research firm AMR Research, sales of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems—software suites that manage corporate finances, purchasing, orders and inventory—have entered for the first time what may be a permanent period of decline.
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