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Your Assignment: Analyse the Collapse of the Med-Tech Industry
-Norbert Sparrow

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. You probably know that phrase, famously uttered by Rahm Emanuel, the tough-as-nails and notoriously profane politician chosen by President Barack Obama to serve as his White House Chief of Staff. I know this sounds a bit Nietzschean, which is really not what I’m going for, but I am intrigued by the idea that a cataclysmic event can also have a cleansing, positive effect.

 

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