Here are four of the top things our research points to that any company can do to cultivate this culture and innovate like Silicon Valley.

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Does the executive personify our culture, cultivate it, and help us nurture it?

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Can you please help ease the visa regulations so we can have students coming back, and international business visitors that will bring money and cultivate long-term resources of culture and academic relationships?

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While other brands have become associated with the "bling" culture of rappers, the House of Krug continues to cultivate an image of understated elegance.

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