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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. Union Pacific.

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Eight Essentials for Scaling Up Without Screwing Up

Harvard Business Review

Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Connect people and cascade excellence.

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How to Pick Your Battles at Work

Harvard Business Review

Lois Kelly, co-author with Carmen Medina (see case study #1) of the upcoming book, Rebels at Work: Befriending the Bureaucratic Black Belts and Leading Change from Within , says the smartest people carefully calculate what’s worth their time and energy. Case study #1: Make it part of your job.

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Case Study: Bet on One Big Idea or Diversify?

Harvard Business Review

Hilde Dach, the former chief scientist at drug-development start-up Genbac and now a team leader at German pharmaceuticals maker Caliska, which had acquired Genbac, could read disappointment in the face of Johan Greve, the Caliska division head who was her boss. You''ve always seen it as a pharmaceutical product. Hilde turned away.