And at the back of my mind, I wanted to prove myself first in the commercial world.
Foreign exposure is a mixed blessing these days in the commercial world, but in the defense business it is viewed as a hedge against unpleasant surprises from the federal government such as budget sequestration.
But what always impresses me about Cambridge is the sense that all kinds of bridges are now being built between world-class science in the university and the commercial world.
Across the Sea of Japan in China, ICBC is the largest and most profitable commercial bank in the world.
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Ecolab is the largest company in the commercial cleaning and sanitation business in the world.
That her endorsements make her the richest sportswoman in the world says even more about the commercial realities of the modern sporting world.
Agriculture is important everywhere, of course: that is why it is the most protected commercial activity in the world.
The trend playing out on social media is a reflection of what's been going on in the commercial and fine art photography world over the last decade.
The order makes the Iridium Next venture the biggest commercial space project in the world today.
By all rights American International Group (AIG) was one of the soundest commercial insurance firms in the world.
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Boingo, which claims to have the largest commercial WiFi network in the world, announced today that Google had agreed to sponsor free WiFi at 4, 000 hotspots in the United States, including hotels, restaurants, shopping centers and 15 major airports.
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We were about to leap from 19, 500 feet, making one of the highest commercial sky-dives in the world that doesn't require customized planes and breathing equipment.
Meanwhile, Real Madrid continues to earn the highest game day income, and the second highest television and commercial revenue streams in the world.
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The deal comes as a debate is raging in the commercial real-estate world over whether nontraded REITs are better for investors than traded REITs.
In the world of commercial property investment, the wind has blown through the newly rehabilitated house of securitization, leaving it shaken once again but not flattened.
The Port of New York and New Jersey is one of the busiest ports in the world and thus a major commercial artery for global commerce.
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Second, for HSBC the most important region in the world for it in a commercial sense is Asia, and that happens to be where governments take a particularly dim view of any kind of trade in illegal drugs.
The 787 Dreamliner is the biggest innovation in commercial aviation since the Boeing 707 introduced the world to passenger jet travel more than 50 years ago.
The lengthy courtship that preceded the deal shows the selective approach being taken toward U.S. commercial property by investors in the world's most-populous country.
Illicit trade's ancestor, smuggling, traces back to ancient times, and many a "thieves' market" survives in the world's commercial hubs.
Unlike early pioneers SAS and SPSS (now owned by IBM), Revolution Analytics fits the mold of other key new players in the big data world: it supports and sells the commercial version of an open-source product, built and nurtured over many years by a dedicated community of enthusiasts.
With increasing consumer demand for larger screen sizes, Samsung will also expand the number of models available in 60 inches and above, in addition to the world's largest commercial UHD TV at 110 inches.
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While Asian economies are among the fastest-growing in the world, offering a strong foundation for rising commercial-property prices, recent economic data has been less encouraging.
About half the carriers in the world provide subsidies for the iPhone for very good commercial reasons.
The Dreamliner ranks as the fastest-selling commercial jet in history, with 59 airlines around the world ordering 870 of them.
Even as massive mapmakers grapple with the problems of how to present the world in ways that serve both educational , commercial and political needs, they are running up against new competitors: individuals.
Iran is the only state in the world today that operates, controversially, a legal, commercial market in organs and then only for the benefit of its citizens.
Equant's edge is that, in geographic terms, it has by far the world's largest commercial data network, extending into more than 2, 000 cities in 220 countries.
While Secher's links with the business education world were closer than most, his contribution in combining the military and commercial worlds is not unique.
It was passed in 1992, before the world even had a commercial Web browser let alone viable Internet video technology.
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