One reason for the rise in Pfizer shares this year was that the company is openly talking about making divestitures, including one of its baby formula business.
The formula was Business 101: Use the right amount of goods and labor to deliver what customers want and no more.
Years of continued success have wedded the firm to its own proven formula and business model, and the new, initially often inferior technology is not something they believe in and particularly want to get involved with.
Pfizer will explore divesting its nutrition business, which sells baby formula, and its animal health business.
Our formula is that our business needs to run on a combination of cargos.
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In the fiercely competitive business of Formula One, it is also vital that the data is secure.
In sum, the adroit marriage of thought leadership and Millionaire Intelligence is a winning formula for remarkable and exciting business and personal success.
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As my colleague Mike Ozanian pointed out in May, Formula One is a strong business and its IPO would be relatively cheap, especially when compared to Facebook.
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This simple formula has proven true in the business of international soccer, particularly over the last twenty years with the formation of the English Premier League.
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Justifying reasons and rulings in Formula 1 can be a complex business, not least because in this rollercoaster of a sport it is never certain what is around the next corner.
FOCA. And even when all these things are set out in the black-and-white of a prospectus, Formula One seems such a personal business that there must be doubts about whether Mr Ecclestone's company could outlast its inventive founder.
Still, the chances of a listing in Singapore or New York may hinge on the outcome of a German investigation of Formula One Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone, who built Formula One into a lucrative global business beginning in the late 1970s.
Mr. Ecclestone, a former used-car salesman who built Formula One into a lucrative global business from the late 1970s, had clashed repeatedly with BayernLB in recent years as he tried to maintain his grip on the board of Formula One despite holding only a 25% equity stake.
But your business is not just a formula, nor is it simply a grade against a checklist of practical criteria.
Management experts say the company's strategy of confronting the charges head-on while not wavering from its low-price business model is the most effective formula over the long haul.
It has already proved that combining business with tourism can be a successful formula for a city-state.
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Its formula downgrades states for large debts, an uncompetitive business climate, weak home prices and bad trends in employment.
"Formula 1 was always our entry point into the car business, " Mr Fernandes said.
Wellpoint, Aetna, Independence, and the other insurers rushing into this business no doubt believe they have a magic formula for turning this misery into a profitable growth engine.
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We believe that business leaders must also understand and embrace this same winning formula.
Eventually it found a team led by Cynthia Barnhard, a logistics expert at America's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which devised an elaborate algorithm that is now at the heart of eCourier's business, in much the same way that a mathematical formula drives Google's search engine.
Business failure was not nearly as bad as operating outside the success formula.
Other bidders include another British soccer team Leyton Orient, a group proposing to host Formula One races, and a college that offers degrees in the soccer industry business.
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Acquisitions were forced to conform to the success formula (such as MySpace) even if such conformance created a gap between the business and market needs.
If this formula sounds familiar, that is because it's how General Motors used to do business.
In these cases, the formula can be confused, misused, and abused, much to the detriment of the business, and in many cases the customer as well.
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Baron's growth formula combines long-term vision with an appetite for risk and a willingness to tweak his business model.
Formula apportionment would allow tax bureaucrats to concoct a system for arbitrarily changing the existing distribution of business income, with a clear goal of forcing companies to over-state their taxable income in high-tax nations.
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