Novartis to be Largest Employer in Cambridge, MA

Novartis to be Largest Employer in Cambridge, MA

The Globe reports that "Novartis AG [announced] an expansion that will make it [Cambridge's] largest corporate employer." (Stephen Heuser, "Novartis moving 2d unit to area,"Boston Globe, December 15, 2006) No distinction is made about Harvard and MIT both corporations. Cambridge City statistics say http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/cdd/data/labor/top25/top25_2006.html
HARVARD UNIVERSITY employs 10,068;
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY employs 7,864.

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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

Novartis moving 2d unit to area Swiss drug maker to put headquarters for vaccines, diagnostics division in Cambridge
By Stephen Heuser,
Boston Globe Staff
December 15, 2006

Two years after opening its global research headquarters in a former Central Square candy factory, the Swiss drug giant Novartis AG said yesterday it will move a second division to Cambridge in an expansion that will make it the city's largest corporate employer. The company hasn't yet settled on a location, but said the new office will house 250 executives and researchers for Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , a unit that makes flu shots and blood tests.
Their arrival next year will bring Novartis's total Cambridge footprint to nearly a million square feet and 1,550 people, larger than local biotechnology giants Genzyme Corp. and Biogen Idec Inc.
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Stephen Heuser can be reached at sheuser@globe.com.