Deals
The $9 Billion Company Nobody Knows
Savvy deals push drug wholesaler Cardinal to the top ranks
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Cardinal Health Inc. Chief Executive Robert D. Walter has never liked working for others. After college, he got an engineering job with a unit of what is now Rockwell International Corp. in Columbus, Ohio. Frustrated with what he saw as bureaucracy, Walter lasted six months. "It was," he says, "the worst experience of my life." So he quit, went to Harvard business school, and decided to start an enterprise where he could to do things
his way.