"Each company on the list is different, but they all have very solid company cultures, " Hohman says.

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The company cultures of the two firms simply aren't compatible.

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In the end, each of the candidates agreed that a complete embedding of corporate responsibility within company cultures across America would require a coordinated push from employees and job seekers as well as students.

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Most organizational cultures, or understandings of what a company values and how things are done, are established by top management and cascade throughout the company.

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It is a cultural transaction that brings people and their cultures together, and that cannot happen from the company headquarters.

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Cities like Austin, Boulder, Houston, Madison, and San Jose all have contemporary civic cultures that make them hotbeds of invention and new company creation.

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Cultures are influenced by the sort of people a company recruits.

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Both stem from the observation that people of different cultures really are different, and in ways that matter to a company's performance.

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As contrasted with the environment discussed above, some cultures distribute annual bonuses based on a formulaic approach calculated on metrics designed to reward individual, team or company performance according to the goals of the specific entity.

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