Hints and tips:
...Rishi Sunak was doing an MBA at Stanford when he met classmate Akshata Murty, the billionaire’s daughter who is now his wife....
...Luckily, amid all the usual guff about r-stars, obsolete playbooks and how Volcker loved fly-fishing, this year’s Jackson Hole confab yielded an interesting paper on the topic by Stanford’s Darrell Duffie...
...Robin WigglesworthFor me, the only advantage really, of R-star is it’s very pun-worthy: “R-star Wars”, “The Fault in R-stars”. Ethan WuI hate the puns. I’m sick of them. They’re tired....
...Catharine Bond Hill, managing director of Ithaka S+R, a higher education consultancy, said that far greater focus and funding is necessary in the US for these less exclusive colleges....
...As a former lawmaker in Europe, I experienced first-hand that “the r-word”, or regulation, was best avoided if you wanted a welcome in Washington or Silicon Valley....
...He self-describes as a “big R” Republican and a “little L” libertarian. He’s non-interventionist, but this is not as counterintuitive as it sounds....
...Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University and Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research, both in California, share the SKr10m ($914,000) prize with Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen....
...We put together the Stanford and MIT groups, our geological hydrogen group Koloma . . . we have theories [for which] there are no companies and we’ve created a bunch of companies....
...(Fun fact: as a young executive at Shell in Brazil, AB InBev’s former boss Carlos Brito convinced Lemann to fund his MBA at Stanford.)...
...Both speeches dwelled on the case for boosting R&D and innovation. Many economists agreed with his analysis. The question that some voters might ask is, as Goodman puts it: “What’s in it for me?”...
...A recent study in animals by researchers at Stanford showed a protein subunit vaccine eliciting high levels of antibodies for more than a year....
...Is it more R&D? is it better marketing? Is it better sales? Is it acquiring other things?...
...than half of its staff engaged in R&D....
...The CRF’s research, published in May, echoed many of the findings of pioneering work by economics professor Nicholas Bloom at Stanford, who has been at the forefront of research into the effects of homeworking...
...In her book The Upside of Stress, Stanford psychologist and lecturer Kelly McGonigal references a study carried out in a Fortune 500 company....
...“Because of that attitude, the ideas get going,” he added, pointing to the propensity for Silicon Valley’s many billionaires to take a punt on the next generation of Stanford dropouts....
...One rigorous study found that the share of profits apportioned to people and R&D dropped from 50 per cent in the 1980s to 9 per cent in the 2000s. I loved my Stanford and McKinsey years....
...The review calls for an expansion of R&D tax credits, the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Venture Capital Trusts....
...Noted physicist Edward Teller voiced similar sentiments in 1959, as did researchers from Stanford in 1968....
...‘Oil industry got it wrong’ John R Tyson is an exemplar of the shift in the industry....
...The R&A, golf’s governing body, said The Open Championship will take place at Royal Liverpool in 2023 and Royal Troon in 2024. Donald Trump’s Turnberry course in Scotland misses out yet again....
.../ From Shaun R McCann, Professor Emeritus Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Colonialism’s ‘dirty work’ must be accounted for / From Ram Mukhija, Branchburg, NJ, US...
...The 2020 budget did, however, define Conacyt’s mission as increasing R&D and “achieving scientific sovereignty which boosts the welfare of the population”....
...At Netflix “F&R” — freedom and responsibility — is the creed. But there is a hard edge. This company’s mantra is being “a team, not a family”....
...Research productivity is falling, says Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom....
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