Pierce pounced within 24 hours, interrupting discussions the target was having with another potential acquirer, and stopped the company from signing a no-shop clause.
The fact is, at this stage of the game, there is no one-stop shop for learning everything you must know to be CMO.
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Last year he quit his secure job at Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) to lead research at a no-name biotech shop working on antifungal drugs.
He is the manager of the newly-opened Legenderry Warehouse No 1 coffee shop in the city-centre.
The conglomerates cannot match the specialists for price and quality, and the convenience of a one-stop shop no longer pulls in punters.
Look at Cleveland Clinic and Community Health Systems just this week they are biting the bullet to work together because they know to a fare-thee-well that no one shop has all the answers.
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The person we know as Lady Thatcher is visibly shocked not just by the price of a carton - there are no more bottles - but by the sounds and sights of a shop in multicultural multi-ethnic Britain.
Kindle comes automatically pre-registered so customers can immediately start enjoying their existing Kindle library or shop for new content, with no set-up required.
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It's an Amazon-like office supplier with no shop front, near zero inventory and a few staff.
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His father, nearing retirement and with no hope of selling a one-client shop, lured Morean home to try his hand at running Jabil in the winter of 1977.
What that means is that - we're encouraging the community to shop in those businesses that have that - the No 287 sign on their window.
Pay-to-purchase, no subscription, with a cash shop and other cash purchase options on the side.
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There is also no doctor, shop or police officer on Canna - which is just four and a half miles long and one mile wide - although ferries visit regularly.
Thanks to its no-questions-asked policies and lax regulations, Liechtenstein is the perfect EU nation in which to set up shop.
As the first Motown act to have a No. 1 single and a million-seller, with "Shop Around" in 1961, Mr. Robinson's Miracles combined cool confidence and energetic optimism to establish the label's winning formula.
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The Dean Witter merger was undertaken with the aim of creating a one-stop shop for financial services, but so far no dazzling synergies have emerged.
With no reason to shop around, keiretsu have kept virtually all insurance in-house.
Richard Young, from the Original Farmers Market Shop, said the shop in question had been empty for two years and no-one wanted to fill it.
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She'll get no argument from Dave Ignizio, who owns Square Records, a vinyl-record shop in the hip Highland Square district of Akron, Ohio.
Mobile phones make micro-entrepreneurs vastly more productive: a plumber no longer has to return to his shop to pick up messages from clients, for example.
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No-one will forget the images of the woman jumping from a burning building or the furniture shop that had survived the blitz now tragically burnt to the ground.
They will find a state -- maybe Arizona, maybe another state -- where there are no requirements for you to get cancer screenings, where there are no requirements for you to have to get pre-existing conditions, and they will all set up shop there.
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