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The Business Roundtable’s Statement (and see B Corporation Statement below) The Business Roundtable, an organization of corporations, issued a statement last week—in a two-page advertisement with all the signatures in the Wall Street Journal, no less—that go…
In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Lets start now to liberate the UKs extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and lets develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world. Joh…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune I’m abandoning the RC…
After a series of divestitures, Bayer AG (OTCPK:BAYRY) (OTCPK:BAYZF) could be at an inflection point: shedding off some of its assets to drive its cost savings and focus its resources on core pharmaceuticals and agricultural business, as well as boosting the …
We werent rich in financial terms, Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris wrote in her memoir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, about her early childhood in Berkeley, California. But the values we internalized provided a different kind of wea…
Bayer has reached a deal to sell its animal health business to Elanco for $7.6 billion. The transaction will make Elanco the second-largest purveyor of animal health products after Zoetis. For Bayer, the deal caps a series of job cuts and asset divestments t…
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GREENFIELD Elanco Animal Health has entered into an agreement to acquire a German-based global enterprises animal health business for $7.6 billion, which would make it the worlds second-largest animal health company. Elancos reports that its companion animal…