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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. Thanks, Amit By Tanmay Vora , January 25, 2010 @ 7:18 pm Thanks Amit, for stopping by and commenting. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”,

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. When biotechnology startups like Genentech began to acquire other startups to retain their edge, pharmaceutical incumbents were forced to enter the acquisition melee to remain competitive.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

As a percent of workers’ compensation, employers’ health care spending has held steady at between 8% and 9% since 2010. The proportion of workers with HDHPs (deductibles of more than $1,300/$2,600 for an individual/family) increased from 6% to 22% between 2006 and 2018. Better to raise deductibles and move on.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, should this have not crossed your mind, the PLoS authors tie their findings to past behavior by the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013. But this period saw a significant change in the kind of research done on sugar and weight gain.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. And Big Business did not even make those bets. That's before the Great Recession. It never happened.