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Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today)

Chart Your Course

The top items on their wish list are better pay policies, clearer top-down communication, and greater transparency about pay. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology make up the second-largest group with three representatives: Genentech, Amgen and Pfizer. Costco, at No. Procter & Gamble. Union Pacific.

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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. Medicare payment policy favors doing more, not doing better.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. American companies send their most promising leaders abroad for global leadership assignments. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. Science and engineering have become devalued amongst American students and policy-makers. It pledges $1.5 Technology belongs on that list as well.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, he commissioned a report that called for an “innovation policy” rather than an “industrial policy.” Other nations may challenge that leadership in one industry or another, but nobody can match the breadth and depth of the United States. a leader in virtually every area of advanced technology.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,