Suits & Sayings: Cold Reception

The ambitious healthcare foray that this legacy business house had charted out is struggling to make it out of the incubator. The group had sounded out a clutch of US hospital chains for potential tie-ups, but enthusiasm on the other side was muted. Word is the top brass even reached out to an influential healthcare patriarch, who politely declined the overtures.

(For more on our weekly roundup of wackiest whispers and murmurs in corporate corridors & policy parlours, pick up today's edition of The Economic Times newspaper)