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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Diverse Boards Are More Innovative

The Horizons Tracker

Moderna, a prominent pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm, adopted an unconventional approach utilizing RNA technology to develop one of the COVID-19 vaccines. Their advisory board consists of individuals with educational backgrounds in fields such as medical sciences, economics, journalism, and finance.

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Best Paid Jobs of 2019 | Glassdoor

HR Digest

The best paid jobs of 2019 are in healthcare, information technology, data analytics, finance, engineering, and law ( see infographic below ). There are some other categories not listed here which are showing remarkable growth, including life sciences and biotechnology and research.

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Taxpayers Helped Apple, but Apple Won't Help Them

Harvard Business Review

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. It is not by accident that the National Institutes of Health spends $31 billion a year on supporting innovation in biotechnology and pharmacology. Take, for instance, the Internet, GPS, touchscreen display, as well as the latest voice-activated personal assistant, Siri.

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The Importance Of Location For Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They suggest that when we have a strong network, we tend to rely heavily on that network for hires, finance and so on. If it is a venture capital-oriented IT, hardware or biotechnology company, this destination might be Silicon Valley.”.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

” Kate left her job at PerkinElmer in February 2014; the next month, she and her business partner started ORIGƷN, a Boston-based biotechnology company. Today he is the CEO of Medalogix, the Nashville-based health IT company, that has raised just under $7 million in financing. “I made the right decision. .”

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

Harvard Business Review

Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., We found differences in how Republican and Democrat directors view the performance of their boards.