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GUEST: Innovation in theory and innovation in practice are radically different. Here are some simple tools to get your company’s innovation pipeline through the obstacles it will encounter. Pete Newell and I have been working with Karl, the Chief Innovation Officer of a large diversified multi-billion-dollar company I’ll call Spacely Industries. Over the last 15 months his staff got […]
In quarterly calls to discuss earnings with Wall Street, executives’ curated comments fall into two categories: information they are required by the SEC to divulge and things they think investors want to hear. Aggregating trending topics from those calls, however, offers a glimpse into what’s on corporate managers’ minds. It was for this reason consulting […]
PRESS RELEASE: Former Partner at Choate Hall & Stewart Brings Significant Experience with Formation, Structure and Financing of Life Sciences Companies BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 28, 2017– Xontogeny, LLC, a life sciences accelerator operating company focused on the early development of pharmaceuticals and other technologies, today announced that Fred Callori has been appointed as Senior Vice President […]
THE easiest way to get an economist to laugh sardonically is to compare a country’s finances to those of a family. It is both simplistic and wrong, they will argue, for politicians to say that a country “must live within its means”. But in a new working paper* from the National Bureau of Economic Research, […]
The North Dakota plains stretch farther than the imagination allows, and amid acres upon acres of farms and ranches, the clogged streets and skyscrapers of faraway Wall Street seem almost fictional. And yet the sentiments of your protest-minded, Big Apple millennial firebrand and your average Roughrider State family farmer may not be such worlds apart […]
Published time: 27 Jul, 2017 23:48 Police investigating London’s Grenfell Tower disaster, in which 80 people were killed in rapidly spreading fire, have sent a letter to survivors and families of victims saying there are “reasonable grounds” to suspect it was a case of corporate manslaughter. READ MORE: Grenfell fire survivors demand resignation of new […]
WHAT is the best way to kill a zombie? Fans of Daryl Dixon, a character in “The Walking Dead”, a television series, will know the answer: a crossbow bolt to the brain. Getting rid of corporate zombies, however, is a much more complicated process. Ageing populations mean that the workforces in developed economies are likely […]
The lower-budget aspects of local news may be endearing, as John Oliver noted at the beginning of last night’s main segment of Last Week Tonight. Using a cardboard bear recreation of a bear attack, for example, is a visible form of corner-cutting that gave one local news program that special, somewhat retro DIY flavor. And those comforting […]
WHEN the financial crisis was at its height in 2008, being a debtor was a dreadful experience. Banks and companies scrambled desperately to get the financing they needed. But the balance of power in the financial markets can easily shift. In 2005 and 2006, credit had been easy to get on generous terms. Not only […]
REUTERS/Ruben Sprich If you needed any further proof that Amazon is shaking the US commercial landscape to its very core, look no further than the past week. Amazon’s $ 13.7 billion deal for Whole Foods has had a ripple effect across sectors. The grocery industry, an $ 800 billion addressable market in the US, according […]
