It was not until 2003 that Cho made it back to South Korea to set up his firm, Mass Studies, so some questioned if he was the best candidate to design South Korea's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.
Hey I went from being a staff member in the second largest firm in Worcester, Mass to being a partner in the second largest firm in New England without ever looking for a job.
Dell has been working for five years on transforming the firm from a mass maker of commodity PCs to an enterprise solutions provider (somewhat in the mold of Hewlett-Packard and IBM), and while the full transformation could take another five years, many signs of progress are already visible.
Moreover, the creators have already found a Minnesota-based firm willing to mass produce the nanobandages should they receive the green light, but the professors are hoping to build the new manufacturing plant in Ohio if at all possible, and have products on retail shelves "by 2008" at the latest.
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This strikes a chord with Chris Grande of Walnut Hills Advisors, a firm in Medford, Mass.
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Laviv, whose consulting firm focuses on securing mass transportation systems, is equally skeptical.
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Ameriprise, the financial planning firm known for targeting mass affluent investors, is dealing with a massive legal problem that could shut down one of its subsidiaries.
Portfolio flow into the big four emerging markets was on the rise again last week, according to EPFR Global, a fund tracking firm in Cambridge, Mass.
In most cases, these employees are women who left to have children, says Carol Fishman Cohen, co-founder of iRelaunch, a career re-entry consulting firm in Newton, Mass.
According to Audit Analytics, a research firm in Sutton, Mass.
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To get some idea of how far computers can reach, take a look at Open Ratings, a Waltham, Mass. firm that helps corporations like United Technologies and Xerox evaluate prospective suppliers.
By taking a different tack, Lilliputian Systems, a four-year-old Wilmington, Mass. firm, has produced a matchbox-size fuel cell that can put out enough electricity to run a laptop computer for days.
Being able to prove a business concept in a hurry, even if the product isn't perfect, is especially attractive to investors, says Peter Bell, general partner with Highland Capital Partners, a venture firm in Lexington, Mass. that staked Digg, Mapquest and Ask Jeeves.
At the laboratory of Aurora, a San Diego-based firm specializing in such mass screening, little needles squirt a billionth of a liter of a potential drug into 3, 456 millimeter-wide wells. (The squirters come from another silicon-based business: ink-jet printers.) In the wells are biologically interesting molecules, such as enzymes, or cells that may present targets to new medicines.
In December, Sun said it would acquire HighGround Systems, a storage-management firm based in Marlborough, Mass.
Only 22% of Americans pay their bills online through their bank, reports TowerGroup, a Needham, Mass. research firm.
"That's a lot like what Dell does, " says analyst Roger Kay of market research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass.
The drug is being developed with biotech firm Vertex of Cambridge, Mass.
Goldman said in the memo Thursday that the decision was prompted when the firm reached a "critical mass" of managing directors, roughly 2, 000 at the beginning of this year.
WebQL likely will be used as a piece of broader, more inclusive business intelligence platforms, according to Dan Vesset, a senior analyst at IDC, a market research firm, in Framingham, Mass.
"It sets expectations that might lead people to think they can afford something they can't, " says Robert Weinerman, senior director of college finance at College Coach, an admissions-consulting firm based in Watertown, Mass.
The firm aims to be able to mass produce the technology by the second half of 2013.
Hedge funds have been selling out of the emerging markets all year, but have been buying fixed income in the BRICs consistently, registering positive inflows in Brazil, Russia, India and China since January, according to fund tracking firm EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
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Then there are the truly unorthodox investors, like Rajeev Kotyan, 43, a partner in the financial firm NUA Advisors, in Lexington, Mass.
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The firm is also not focused on the mass market, with just 326, 000 Vertu smartphone owners worldwide after 10 years in the industry.
Among them is South Korean firm LG Displays, which has just begun mass-producing fully flexible e-ink screens.
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