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Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today)

Chart Your Course

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology make up the second-largest group with three representatives: Genentech, Amgen and Pfizer. 2 on the list, is the only retailer to make the chart, along with one company each from the insurance, transportation, energy and travel industries. Costco, at No.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business Review

The transformation that started in retailing, music, and movies in the 1990s has now spread to education, financial services, cars and trucks, transportation services, energy and the environment, hotels and lodging, life sciences, all types of manufacturing, and even shipping, to name just a few. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

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You Don’t Have to Be in Silicon Valley to Build the Next Great Internet Company

Harvard Business Review

If you look at the last 20 years or so, venture capitalists did help make the Internet possible, did help make biotechnology possible, are driving a lot of investment in energy technologies and transportation technologies and government services and educational services and healthcare and so forth. We believe D.C.

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The Limits of 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Exciting applications have already been demonstrated across all sectors — from aerospace and medical applications to biotechnology and food production. Thus, while it makes a lot of sense to print the wrench on the space station, printing it for local consumption in the United States wouldn’t.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials.