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...Dirk Van den Berghe has stepped down as non-executive chair of the group, the company said, with a search started for a replacement....
...When Toys R Us arrived in the country in the mid 1990s, it also initially eschewed collective bargaining....
...“We are way ahead in innovation and we have demonstrated the ability to rapidly transfer R&D to mass production.”...
...“You should be able to have a blues tune next to a country tune next to a jazzy tune next to an R&B tune,” she says....
...WattMacroeconomic Policy Institute, IMK Neil LancastleSenior Lecturer, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Marco Veronese PassarellaAssociate Professor, Link Campus University of Rome and Leeds University Gracjan R....
...David R Sorensen Professor of English,Saint Joseph’s University,Philadelphia, PA, US...
...Letter in response to this column: Dickens and Orwell had much in common / From David R Sorensen, Professor of English, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, US...
...The reductions are expected to affect R&D units and headquarter staff functions, as well as positions in the global commercial organisation....
...Novo Nordisk’s chief executive Lars Rebien Sorensen said on Friday: We have reassessed our long-term target for operating profit growth and our R&D strategy in the light of the challenging market environment...
...David R Sorensen Professor of English, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, US...
...Sorensen...
...They also predicted the real would end the year at R$3.20 before weakening next year to end 2016 at R$3.30....
...Dirk Willer of Citigroup said: “It’s certainly true that when people get nervous with emerging market asset classes, they hide out in Asia.”...
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...From Prof David R. Sorensen....
...Merck, the US pharmaceutical giant, announced on Tuesday it is building a $1.5bn R&D facility in Beijing....
...Related reading: Drug groups step up emerging markets push, beyondbrics Big pharma counts the cost of R&D, FT...
...It’s an innovation tool out of a spectrum that includes R&D, acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing and university co-operations,” says Ralf Schnell, head of Siemens Venture Capital....
...During the past 20 years, as food prices fell in real terms, this decline was matched by a fall in investment in R&D....
...Brad Sorensen, director of market and sector analysis at Charles Schwab agreed. “We urge investors not to overreact to the rising fear in the market,” he said....
...For instance, the Czech man of letters Karel Capek, in his 1921 play R.U.R., coined the word “robot” to describe the kind of autonomous thinking machine that won the American quiz show Jeopardy this February...
...This is a “worrying” development, says Dirk Woelfer, spokesman for the German Chamber of Commerce in Hungary. “There is a lack of predictability and consultation....
...Energy Source: Controversial peak oilist Matthew Simmons dies Matthew R. Simmons died suddenly of a heart attack on Sunday, writes the FT’s Carola Hoyos....
...Here’s an insight — ‘contribute’ is spelled with an ‘r.’ Ta-dah....
...Brazil’s real jumped nearly 2 per cent against the dollar to R$2.1359 after the country’s equity market rose more than 5 per cent in early trade....
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