Understanding pharmacy benefits
Leveraging the strengths of health insurers and PBMs
If at first you don’t succeed …
Examining the Employee Free Choice Act
Risky business
At the Graham Co., indemnity is in the details.
Movers & Shakers
D’Alessandro elected United Way board chair
Proactive export financing
Get your risk in check when doing business overseas.
PRO: We need to retain our lobbying laws
Regulation of political lobbying is an established practice throughout the United States. Nearly every state government requires lobbyists to report their lobbying activities. In addition, many of the largest local jurisdictions in California have such regulations, including Los Angeles and Santa Cruz counties, and the cities of San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, Oakland […]
CON: L.A. ethics reforms penalize business
In a noble attempt to repair the city’s “pay-to-play” image, the Los Angeles City Council recently adopted new rules that, in part, prevent lobbyists from serving on commissions. This will be a hollow reform as long as it only applies to registered lobbyists who play by the rules and fully disclose their financial compensation, and […]
Changes in the Patent Act of 2005
Proposed rules could have significant effects on businesses.
Biotech and the business of balance
CEO Frank Baldino’s balanced-risk model levels out the high-risk game of biotech business at Cephalon.
The business letter
How to use this undervalued tool to your advantage