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...BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, officially launched a collaborative research program with Harvard yesterday. Under the terms of the agreement jointly established by the University’s Office of Technology Development and BASF in October 2007, the German company will provide $20 million over the next five years to support Harvard researchers in areas including the applied sciences, engineering, and chemical and systems biology. “As researchers, we are constantly looking for new, interesting problems to work on,” said physics professor David A. Weitz, who is co-directing the BASF...
...representative ETF of the world economy today, I would be holding a stake in PetroChina and Sinopec. I would also be invested in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which holds a significant stake in PetroChina. I would own shares in McDonald’s, Exxon, and BASF, all of which have major business partnerships with Sinopec. Does this mean I am promoting genocide if I invest in these companies or in ETFs with these companies as components? Holding stock in these affiliate companies is arguably promoting the Sudanese government as much as is holding a stock index containing...
...that would let you carry your whole library on a sheet of plastic. That makes it the first plant proposed anywhere that would produce plastic transistors on a commercial scale. Plastic Logic's plant attracted $100 million from such backers as Oak Investment Partners, Intel, Bank of America and BASF. "We believe there is nothing silicon transistors can do that polymer transistors won't be able to do eventually," says Hermann Hauser, a former physicist and now a partner at Plastic Logic financier Amadeus Capital Partners...
...Britain, the U.S. or the Netherlands earns? Just ask the company. But not in Germany, where pay packages have long been a secret. Only 10 of the 30 firms in the DAX index disclose individual compensation; those who just say no include automakers DaimlerChrysler and BMW, chemical firm BASF and insurer Munich Re. But the pressure's on for greater disclosure. Last week a group of Germany's Social Democratic M.P.s proposed laws to force firms to provide pay details. Justice...
INVENTORS BASF, Procter & Gamble...