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Genentech - The Beginnings of Biotech by Sally Smith Hughes
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Synthesis Ser.
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from ...Show more
Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe
Category: New Age | Series: Synthesis
In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas a ...Show more
Too Much Is Not Enough - Incentives in Executive Compensation by Robert W. Kolb
Category: Education | Series: Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Ser.
The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast. As such, this literature provides an unparalleled resource for studying the interaction between the setting of incentives (or the attempted setting of incentives) and the behavior that is actually adduced. From this literature, thereare several ...Show more
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