Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) reports its fourth quarter earnings on Thursday, January 31, 2013.
Will Thermo be willing to pay to make this business competitive with other startups?
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Stable end markets and cost-cutting efforts let Thermo deliver solid profits through tough times.
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Thermo is having a bad year, and its shares have dropped 67% since January.
As with other management models, there are drawbacks as well as advantages to the Thermo Way.
Without a clear focus, Thermo would risk becoming just another conglomerate in too many businesses.
Mr Hatsopoulos also thinks Thermo could be more adept at spreading new ideas around the company.
Chemical explosions are a sort of thermo-criticality where the reaction produces enough heat to sustain even more reaction.
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Thermo recently announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in China, expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Qiagen (QGEN), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), and Strategic Diagnostics (SDIX).
Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Teleflex Incorporated (TFX), Covidien (COV), and Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO).
Cook made the bulk of his income on the road with his lucrative Isolated Incident Global Thermo Comedy Tour.
In some ways, Thermo has had it easy, increasing sales by entering niche after niche with spin-out after spin-out.
Thermo Fisher Scientific looks to keep the momentum going when it reports third quarter earnings on Wednesday, October 24, 2012.
From 10, 000 feet up, both Thermo and Life are basically companies that sell laboratory equipment to scientists in academia and industry.
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The majority of analysts (87.5%) rate Thermo Fisher Scientific as a buy.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc ( NYSE: TMO) is lower by about 0.3%.
The majority of analysts (93.3%) rate Thermo Fisher Scientific as a buy.
Leaders in heart replacement technology, such as Thermo Cardiosystems and Thoratec Laboratories have long shied away from making a permanent artificial heart.
The idea to use heat disparities for power is over two centuries old, and we've seen larger concepts make use of thermo-electrics.
The exact financial penalty for Thermo's increasing complexity is hard to estimate, says Mr Hatsopoulos's brother, John (who is Thermo's chief financial officer).
ThermoLase is an oddity: by adapting star-wars laser technology for use in depilatories, it has taken Thermo into the consumer-services business for the first time.
To help remedy all this, the firm has created the Thermo Management Institute, which runs courses explaining Thermo's philosophy to a growing number of its 20, 500 employees.
Still in the development phase, it is a tiny, biodegradable mini-implant filled with a thermo-stabilized vaccine that is placed under the skin in a quick, painless process.
Thermo also spent a billion dollars last year buying back its own shares, and has authorization to spend a bit more on Thermo buybacks again this year.
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While the mega-players continue to spend heavily on research, however, their new size gives them more purchasing muscle when buying lab equipment: Thermo may face more price resistance.
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As Joey would later recount in his college-application essays, he had immediately taken the initiative to research the wholesale source of this watch and the price of a thermo-embedding press.
Thermo has been gaining market share because its broad line of products allows pharmaceutical makers, university research labs, health care providers and other science clients it serves to consolidate their purchases.
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