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Partnering With Universities Can Help To Protect Firm’s IP

The Horizons Tracker

Such an approach can be an effective hedge against any leakage risks, especially as academics prefer to publish their research publicly, so patent protection is less effective. The researchers examined the creative collaborations of 157 pharma companies that had each released new drugs into the market between 1980 and 2004.

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Taking Control of Your Investments: The Case for Transferring to a Gold IRA

Strategy Driven

For instance, the stock market can be unpredictably turbulent. Gold typically moves independently of the stock market, in contrast to equities and bonds. Hedge Against Inflation Inflation erodes the purchasing power of your money over time. In the past, gold has been a dependable inflation hedge.

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

” Given the scale of the sector, the researchers speculate that automation is likely to result in a few hundred thousand jobs being lost, although they hedge this by stating that many of these jobs are badly paid and generally unpleasant in nature. “We We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

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How Hedge Funds Create Criminals

Harvard Business Review

Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. Now authorities are serving subpoenas on other, larger hedge and mutual funds. Killing Conscience.

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The Man Who Is Changing The World.

Rich Gee Group

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

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Investors Always Come Back … Even to Argentina

Harvard Business Review

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations. What happened next shocked him: “The performance of my team instantly improved.

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