3M was founded in 1902 as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. While it began as a mining firm, a focus on innovation led the company to create products to help it do things more easily and efficiently—and these proved to be immensely popular with everyone. 3M has gone on to make over 55,000 products, […]

CHG Healthcare Services is the US leader in “locum tenens staffing,” i.e., rapidly providing physicians temporarily to places around the country that at any given time are short on doctors (e.g., because a local doctor is on vacation, a patient has needs beyond the skills of local doctors, or an area is just perpetually lacking […]

Eli Lilly and Company was founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly, a veteran of the US Civil War who was frustrated by the poorly prepared and often ineffective medicines of his time. He set out to do better…and succeeded. Some 140 years later, Eli Lilly has grown to employ over 41,000 people providing innovative […]

Genentech is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines to treat millions of patients with serious medical conditions. It especially focuses on oncology (cancer), immunology, tissue growth and repair, neuroscience, and infectious diseases. Genentech was founded in 1976 by Robert A. Swanson and Herbert Boyer. In 2009 the company was purchased by […]

Mayo Clinic, which sprang from the medical practice of Dr. William Worral Mayo in 1864, has grown to become one of the most extraordinary and respected health organizations on the planet. The largest integrated nonprofit medical group in the world, Mayo Clinic has essentially three sides to it: an educational component that includes free medical […]

The Salk Institute  for Biological Studies was founded by Jonas Salk, the legendary scientist who developed the vaccine that wiped out the polio epidemic. In 1960, there were over 45,000 polio cases in the US. Two years later, after Salk’s vaccine had become widely available, the number of cases dropped to 910. Hailed as a […]