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...Net income increased slightly to a record R$2.2bn ($424mn), despite a R$1.2bn provision linked to a retail chain hit by an accounting scandal that affected several other lenders in Brazil....
...Partially as a consequence of the bankruptcy of Toys R Us in 2017, Lego has expanded its network from 317 stores that year to about 1,000 currently....
...“In the end, science won the day back then,” said Ken Takeshita, global head of R&D at Daiichi....
...Behind the Spac-targeting short seller Seasoned Hollywood executives Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky may have kicked off the Spac party by taking DraftKings public in 2019, but they now have an unwanted guest...
...In further reading, see the sad story of entrepreneur Tony Hsieh's spiral into "alcohol, drugs and extreme behaviour", by the Wall Street Journal's Kirsten Grind, James R. Hagerty and Katherine Sayre....
...On Sunday, Soriot’s friend José Baselga, AstraZeneca’s head of oncology R&D, died in Spain....
...He said Operation Warp Speed’s plan to back so many horses looks to have been inspired by how Mr Slaoui ran R&D at the UK drugmaker, where he splintered the department into smaller teams to compete against...
...This implies that $1 of additional public funds for R&D translates into $5 of extra R&D funded by the private sector at the mean values of public and private R&D....
...But they are three times more likely to have a product, R&D or engineering management background than typical MBAs.”...
...Financial institutions are looking for R, Python or another programming language.”...
...Mr Baselga was the physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, both in New York....
...Major pharma companies make about twice as much in profit each quarter as they spend on R&D....
...At KPMG, applicants for roles in cyber security or data analytics consultancy teams are expected to be well-versed in programming languages such as Python and R, and data visualisation tools such as Tableau...
...The UK’s AstraZeneca has announced a shake-up of its research and development and commercial operations, including by naming José Baselga to run its oncology R&D unit....
...John Van Reenen, professor, MIT economics department and Sloan management school It has not and it will not....
...But his grand plan hit a wall during the summer, when his conglomerate abruptly sold 13 cultural projects and 77 hotels to two rival Chinese developers, Sunac China and R&F Properties, for $9.3bn....
...While some of his peers on the course want to develop expert coding skills in Python or R, a statistical computing language, he is content to “understand what goes in and comes out”....
...AstraZeneca, which is building a £330m R&D base in Cambridge, issued a similar rebuke last year when Nice resisted olaparib, its homegrown ovarian cancer drug....
...This pressure to innovate helps explain the record wave of mergers and acquisitions that has swept the sector over the past two years as drugmakers have vied to strengthen their R&D pipelines....
...Mr Jonas forecasts a total of $14.4bn in capex and R&D costs between this year and 2020, for another plant, tooling and the Gigafactory. “And I’m prepared for more,” he says....
...Software is starting to steer the car industry — to redirect the way in which it has been organised since Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan of General Motors placed assembly companies at its heart....
...The answer, he argues, is to break up inefficient R&D operations and outsource innovation to nimbler biotech companies — a prescription big pharma is already embracing....
...Here’s the first question from one of our readers: I have a PhD in engineering and a seven year background in semiconductor R&D....
...A study we did with MIT Sloan Management Review found that companies in developing markets are the most likely to focus on sustainability-related business model innovation....
...Even big pharma companies increasingly farm out R&D for small operators to take the risk, rather than working in-house. Cue financial engineering....
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