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Work With Me

Even after completing studies for a bachelor’s in industrial engineering and management sciences from Northwestern University, Cindy Kent swiftly experienced her toughest and most informative business lessons in her first job as a 22-year-old engineer for the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. “I led a team of senior engineers who had more time working than I had time living,” recalls Kent, now vice president and general manager of Gastro/Urology Therapies for Medtronic Inc., a medical technology company based in Minneapolis. “I learned really early on that they weren’t going to do anything for me.

Regaining Control

He was making a major transition, but when Hoover McCoy retired from the Air Force, financial uncertainty and money woes were, at most, only a remote concern. After 22 years...

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