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Spotlight Salesforce: The Customer Company

26 Jul, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Aptly known as the "Customer Company," Salesforce has a mission to build bridges between companies and customers, fostering meaningful connections that drive business success. Based in San Francisco, California, Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software. This Knowledge Leader recognizes that...

Spotlight NTT: Dialing Up the Future

26 Jul, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Based in Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. In a recent statement, CEO Jun Sawada emphasized NTT's commitment to continuous innovation and growth, noting the company is not only focused on expanding...

Spotlight Nvidia: The GPU Guru Shaping Tomorrow

20 Jul, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Nvidia is a trailblazer of accelerated computing. This Knowledge Leader has been instrumental in revolutionizing today’s technology landscape in a range of areas from enhancing graphics for immersive gaming experiences to turbocharging scientific research and steering the future of autonomous...

Spotlight NEC: Navigating the Electronic Century

19 Jul, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, NEC Corporation is a global leader in IT and network technologies. This Knowledge Leader aims to provide solutions that can help societies overcome complex challenges. For example, NEC makes biometric identification systems, video analytics systems, and digital government solutions designed to...

Spotlight Nokia: The Unseen Conductor of Global Connectivity

13 Jul, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Nokia Corporation is a global leader in networking. Based in Espoo, Finland, this Knowledge Leader's mission is to bring together the world's people, machines, and devices to realize the potential of digital in every industry. Nokia's CEO Pekka Lundmark often emphasizes the company's ambition to...

Spotlight Amazon: The Jungle Where Innovation Roars

13 Jul, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and a prominent player in the field of cloud services, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. This Knowledge Leader has redefined the landscape of e-commerce and technology. At its core, Amazon seeks to solve the problem of accessibility and convenience...

Spotlight Lasertec: In Search of Flawless Semiconductors

16 Mar, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Based in Yokohama, Japan, Lasertec makes advanced inspection tools for semiconductor manufacturing. Using optical technology, its systems find defects too tiny to be seen by the human eye. In the semiconductor manufacturing process, defects may appear first on the photomask layer of a chip. If...

Spotlight Bandai Namco: Where Video Game Characters are IP

16 Nov, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

Bandai Namco is a video game entertainment company that aims to make “play” a natural part of life. As of this year, it is the world’s third largest video game company after Sony Interactive and Nintendo. The company’s history goes back to 1950 in Tokyo, Japan,...

Mid-Quarter Update: Spheres of Innovation

14 Nov, by Steven Vannelli, CFA in Knowledge Leaders, Portfolio Management

We believe highly innovative companies, when accounted for properly, are cheaper than their non-innovative peers in all regions of the world. Below in our Mid-Quarter Update, we map the spheres of innovation in the developed world. Prefer to download this presentation in PDF? Please click here.   1.Summary We...

International Innovation

02 Nov, by Steven Vannelli, CFA in Knowledge Leaders, Markets, Portfolio Management

Investors in innovation tend to focus on the US exclusively, and some of that is for good reason as the US spends more than any other country on research and development. But there are many innovative companies outside the US that spend substantial sums on...

Spotlight LHC Group: Innovating Home Health Care

26 Oct, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Knowledge Leaders

LHC Group provides home health care services to patients in the United States, including post-acute, therapy, and hospice care. The firm also runs 124 residential facilities serving patients who have transitioned out of a hospital but whose conditions remain too severe to go home. Based in...