Ripped from today's headlines, Grey Matters will take you a pulsing tour of the inside world of modern medicine. This explosive first novel from Dr. Mark Foster will grab your heart on the first page, not letting it go until the final boat-rocking climax. Dr. Joseph Rorke is an overworked medical resident putting in long hours at his Colorado hospital. Kaitlyn Sullivan is a vibrant obstetrical nurse. They are each struggling with ethical dilemmas in their young careers when a mysterious mutual dream brings them together. Kaitlyn believes; Joe is skeptical. But the power of the dream...

Value chains today have a huge impact on multinational corporations' right to exist and the way they compete. The future challenges associated with value chains are also huge and include new demands from society, emerging-market strategies, resource scarcity, risk proliferation and other issues. Anticipating and addressing these future challenges are crucial if companies are to compete effectively. IMD and several multinational companies created the IMD Global Value Chain Center (VC2020) in June 2011 to develop research about the future of value chains. This book summarizes some of the key...