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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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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Forward thinkers engage in mental time travel to imagine the future and see opportunities to create new value for customers. Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

Some travel is easing. It could be an ideal location for healthcare organizations, but also for those in applied sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. And secondly, the business model for Cuban biotechnology has been laughably bad. A lot of people get hung up on the issue of travel between the U.S.

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The Importance Of Location For Startups

The Horizons Tracker

If it is a venture capital-oriented IT, hardware or biotechnology company, this destination might be Silicon Valley.”. It’s paradoxical, but it turns out that goods travel more easily than ideas,” the researchers conclude. This has prompted many of the fastest growing companies of our age to congregate in the same places.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2Ă—2 matrix below.

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Greenfeld’s “The Subprimes” and the Way Fiction Predicts the Present

Harvard Business Review

To understand The Subprimes , consider first how writers — and science fiction writers in particular — have teased at American class anxiety such as in HG Wells’s The Time Machine , where a time-traveler visits a distant future in which workers and elites have speciated into subterranean Morlocks and a ruling caste called Eloi.

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