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Moderna CFO Exits A Day After Taking Charge With His Annual Pay

HR Digest

The biotechnology company announced Gomez’s appointment as the new Moderna CFO on April 11. formerly ModeRNA Therapeutics, was founded in 2011 and primarily focuses on developing mRNA vaccines. Moderna CFO Jorge Gomez had assumed the position just one day prior, almost a month after leaving a dental company. The Moderna Success Story.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

Further, the growing number of patent applications fild with China's State Intellectual Property Office suggests that the country will become the world's largest patents-holder by 2011. According to experts, though, many of these applications don't amount to much. An analysis of data on patents granted by the U.S.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology. Nestle, Unilever, and Novartis have several business units based in the U.S.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. In 2011, he commissioned a report that called for an “innovation policy” rather than an “industrial policy.” The Era of Big Science. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.” “I knew I wanted to be free to make these big decisions.”

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It's Manufacturing's Turn for Special Treatment

Harvard Business Review

And one look at the trade deficit ($558 billion in 2011) clearly indicates we don't have as much as our foreign competitors to sell in return. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present in sectors like biotechnology, advanced materials, and nanotechnology. To make up the difference, we just borrow.