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When Managers Make Decisions
IF YOU OPERATE A CLINICAL LABORATORY, does the news of NeoPath, Inc.’s national contracts with Kaiser Permanente and SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL) alter your competitive position in the market? After all, it’s only been a few m…
Lab Specialists Acquired By Kroll-O’Gara Company
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory Specialists of America has demonstrated a multi-year capability to increase revenues and boost earnings. The merger with Kroll-O’Gara provides it with ample capital to intensify its own acquisition program. One key to Laboratory Specialists’ success is its reco…
SmithKline’s Strategies Now Delivering Benefits
CEO SUMMARY: Business strategy does make a difference. However, it sometimes takes years to appreciate the wisdom of choosing one strategy over another. In the case of SmithKline Beecham’s lab division, the decision to become sole-source provider to the nation’s largest HMOs may event…
Expect ISO 9000 To Alter Clinical Lab Management
CEO SUMMARY: Perceptive laboratory executives and pathologists should welcome the impending arrival of ISO 9000 into the clinical laboratory industry. It promises to solve many problems of laboratory management. The diagnostics industry, responsible for manufacturing instruments and suppl…
Executive War College Goes International
IT MAY SURPRISE MANY PEOPLE TO LEARN THAT THIS YEAR’S Executive War College in New Orleans attracted registrants from New Zealand and Germany. What may be even more surprising is the reason they traveled from overseas to come to this particular program. Our editor met with them and learne…
SmithKline May Merge With Glaxo Wellcome
CEO SUMMARY: Both companies confirm that merger talks are under way. The merger is another example of consolidation within the healthcare industry, and is expected to trigger mergers between other drug companies. Fate of SmithKline’s clinical laboratory division in the merger with Glaxo…
1997’s Top Ten Lab Stories Predict New Directions
CEO SUMMARY: Events during 1997 reveal that the laboratory industry continues to undergo fundamental change. Yet even amidst the industry’s downsizing, selected laboratory organizations continue to flourish. Here is THE DARK REPORT’s annual look at top stories for the year. A careful …
California’s Rumor Mill Links LabCorp & Unilab
CEO SUMMARY: Continued financial pressure on all laboratories operating in California leads some industry observers to believe that Laboratory Corporation of America and Unilab might be considering some kind of deal between the two companies. Senior executives at both laboratories say suc…
Management Philosophy Drives UroCor’s Success
CEO SUMMARY: In the year 1997, UroCor shows a financial strength and growth potential unlike most commercial laboratories. UroCor’s current success is a direct result of how UroCor’s management did things differently during the years from 1991 to the present. Much of UroCor’s succes…
President Of SmithKline Lab Unit Respected As “Tough Competitor”
WITH troubles at Corning/Quest and LabCorp attracting publicity during the previous 18 months, few people observed a discreet but important change at SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL). John B. Okkerse, Jr., Ph.D. has quietly assumed fu…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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