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...Jacquelyn Schneider’s interesting article on war games (Opinion, March 18) underscores their value as a way for institutions to test possible outcomes of conflict rather than to predict the future....
...It is not implausible to imagine a connection between this funnelling and, say, the productivity crisis in pharmaceutical R&D, or the “Great Stagnation” described by economist Tyler Cowen....
...Today, they’re joined by Chens and Diops, Smiths, Duponts and Bensaïds....
...D.R. Henderson at St John 26 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY Fergus Henderson’s cult cocktail D.R. Henderson is billed as the perfect morning-after tipple to follow a night of excess....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired Gordon Riske, chief executive of KION Group, as an operating adviser to CD&R Funds....
...Many of the great advances in US R&D this century came from well-funded corporate R&D groups with relative freedom from short-term financial returns....
...DuPont chairman Ed Breen promised in December the combined business with IFF would have “double the R&D of any other company in the industry”....
...One strength of 3M’s business model is that its mature businesses can spawn new ones through heavy R&D spending. This came to the tune of $1.9bn last year....
...Perhaps it’s time for a Bretton Woods-style conference on digital data, writes Sam duPont in CSIS....
...Needless to say, the hedge fund that gained notoriety last year for taking on both Blackstone’s GSO and Toys R Us employees is now suffering heavy redemptions....
...The seeds and agricultural chemicals company will be spun off on June 1, leaving a speciality chemicals group called DuPont....
...Retail has had a number of large restructurings recently: Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year and Toys R Us collapsed into liquidation....
...Jacquelyn MacLennan, partner and global pro bono practice leader, White & Case The first partner in global law firm White & Case to work part-time hours, Jacquelyn MacLennan has long championed flexible...
...The 53-year-old recently left a high-powered career that took him round the world with multinationals including Chevron, Procter & Gamble and DuPont....
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...He has stressed that Trian is not advocating a break-up, a cut to R&D spending or Mr Taylor’s exit....
...Dow and DuPont agreed to sell almost all of DuPont’s global R&D organisation to mitigate Ms Vestager’s main competition concern, that there will be continued innovation in crop protection products – the...
...Dow and DuPont forecast $300m of annual R&D savings costs from the merger, but argue that efficiency gains will lead to more innovation after the deal and that ever growing resistance to current products...
...“The three or four companies left will be better at carrying out groundbreaking R&D, transferring technology from the public sector and complying with international standards.”...
...Bayer originally said that the combined Bayer-Monsanto would have an annual agricultural R&D budget of €2.5bn....
...He said Mr Trump had convinced the two companies to make the commitment on R&D....
...Bayer says its combined crop science R&D budget post-merger would be $2.5bn a year — $900m more than its nearest competitor, Dow-Dupont, and enough to achieve critical mass “in all relevant R&D platforms...
...“First and foremost we want to invest in our existing business and get organic growth and R&D to move forward,” he said. “However we are quite ambitious to grow by M&A as well.”...
...There is plenty of time for the corporate hubris [from the Syngenta/Dow/DuPont deals] to wind down.”...
...R&D spending will be $1.6bn-$1.7bn, down from $1.9bn last year, but in line with its annual average level over the past 15 years of about $1.65bn....
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