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...like the lottery, Whitesides is a Powerball winner many times over. More than two decades ago, he co-founded a biotech startup called Genzyme, which now boasts a stock market value of more than $17 billion. Another Whitesides biotech venture, Theravance, is worth more than $2 billion on the Nasdaq...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Eyes New Future for Discoveries | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...flight a day between Tallinn and Stockholm. Now there are six. At Swedbank, half the staff is currently based in the Baltic states or Russia. Such connections have helped drive Sweden's own growth and bolstered its ability to compete on a global stage. When New York City-based nasdaq launched a bid to acquire Sweden's omx in late May, part of the attraction was that omx owns stock exchanges throughout the Baltics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sea of Plenty | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...shares hit $114 billion in 2006, some way from the $3.8 billion bartered in its first full year. AIM attracted 198 initial public offerings last year, four times the number on the LSE's main market, and considerably more than on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NASDAQ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sharp AIM | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...vetting companies is hardly traditional. To float on the LSE's main market, a company normally needs a three-year business record, a minimum market cap and shareholder approval for big acquisitions or disposals; NASDAQ and NYSE have similar hurdles. But AIM's quality control is outsourced to 85 so-called Nominated Advisers, or Nomads. Generally accounting firms or financial management companies, Nomads scrutinize a firm's executive staff, business model and performance before deciding whether it can list. To a degree, NYSE's Thain is right: AIM has very few prescriptive requirements for listing - the Nomad's own judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sharp AIM | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...every season opens with a newspaper landing in Tony's driveway, underlining the suburban setting and reminding us that, to some extent, the show intends to deliver the news. Tony (James Gandolfini) has fretted about terrorism and suffered through recessions; wife Carmela (Edie Falco) dabbled in stocks during the NASDAQ craze and in real estate when that market took off. There have been parallels to politics--like Tony's Clintonian appetites and his Bushian yen for simple answers--and direct references, as when Carmela copped to voting for Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The End of the Soprano Administration | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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