Top Research & Development Companies

S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive economically in a rapidly changing global landscape.   From helping our customers assess new investments across the capital and commodities markets to guiding them through the energy expansion, acceleration of artificial intelligence, and evolution of public and private markets, we enable the world’s leading organizations to unlock opportunities, solve challenges, and plan for tomorrow – today. Our divisions include: S&P Global Market Intelligence delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction. S&P Global Ratings brings bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, enabling growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions. S&P Global Energy provides a comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets, enabling customers to make superior decisions and create long-term, sustainable value. S&P Global Mobility turns invaluable insights captured from automotive data to help our clients understand today’s market, reach more customers, and shape the future of automotive mobility. S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators. Learn More: https://www.spglobal.com/en/capabilities/overview ________________________________________________________Recruitment Fraud Alert: If you receive an email from a spglobalind.com domain or any other regionally based domains, it is a scam and should be reported to reportfraud@spglobal.com. S&P Global never requires any candidate to pay money for job applications, interviews, offer letters, “pre-employment training” or for equipment/delivery of equipment. Stay informed and protect yourself from recruitment fraud by reviewing our guidelines, fraudulent domains, and how to report suspicious activity here: https://www.spglobal.com/content/dam/spglobal/corporate/en/documents/careers/Corp_0525-Recruitment-Fraud-Alert.pdf

Founded in 2008, AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on-demand. We connect investors and business leaders with the knowledge they need to succeed. Working from nine cities globally, our 1500+ colleagues provide round-the-clock coverage to the world's top investment funds, consultancies, and Fortune 500s. Learn more about us at alphasights.com. We're proud to be regularly recognized as an employer of choice; our people's career success matters to us. We offer ambitious and driven individuals the opportunity to own commercial results from day one, build a track record of achievement and springboard their careers. Our colleagues are provided with hands-on learning opportunities, 90% on the job and 10% through structured training. As a high-performance, client-first organization, our culture is defined by our focus on client, career, and company success. People come here to individually grow, and collectively achieve something bigger than themselves.

Kantar is a data and evidence-based agency providing insights and actionable recommendations to clients, worldwide. We have a complete, unique and rounded understanding of people around the world: how they think, feel and act, globally and locally in over 90 markets. We don’t just help clients understand what’s happened, we tell them why and how they can help shape the future.

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265 billion in assets under advisement and management as of Dec. 31, 2021. The Company has operations in 29 countries. Chicago Photo Credit: Design Architect Perkins+Will Photography Steve Hall © Hedrich Blessing Photographers. London Photo Credit: Marek Sikora Photography

Education isn't just for show in the Show Me State. The University of Missouri (UM), founded in 1839, educates about 70,000 students at four campuses and through a statewide extension program; about a quarter of students are in graduate or professional programs. The university's campuses include flagship UM-Columbia (home to roughly 32,000 students, some 20 schools and colleges, and the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center), UM-Kansas City, UM-St. Louis, and the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Nicknamed "Mizzou," the University of Missouri System has close to 7,600 faculty members and a student-teacher enrollment of about 11:1.

GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise, connecting decision makers to the precise intelligence they need to gain a strategic edge. Leveraging decades of experience and proprietary data, GLG’s global teams recruit and engage hard-to-access experts across every industry – delivering fresh, authoritative insights, events, advisors, and board placements to the world’s most recognized and influential companies.

Quality and safety are top of mind at Intertek. The company serves many of the world's leading brands and companies across a wide range of industries as a global provider of quality and safety-related services, including assurance, auditing, certification, inspection, testing, and training. Intertek works with customers to minimize the risks of their products, processes, and supply chains, as those customers develop new products, technologies, and infrastructure. It also helps customers meet industry and government compliance standards, as those standards expand and change among companies and countries. Among the industries Intertek serves are consumer goods, food, energy, oil and gas, and pharmaceutical.

European businesses that get tangled up in technology can avail themselves of ALTEN's services. The company provides a variety of engineering and technology consulting services for clients primarily in France. It also operates in Germany, the Benelux region, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Areas of specialty include design and development for the aerospace, energy, and transportation industries; consulting and engineering services for telecom carriers; information systems design and support for financial services firms; and project management for laboratories and other research and development organizations. ALTEN's founders -- including chairman and CEO Simon Azoulay -- control 40% of the company's stock.

Forrester is a global independent research and advisory firm. We help leaders across technology, customer experience, digital, marketing, sales, and product functions use customer obsession to accelerate growth. Through Forrester’s proprietary research, consulting, and events, leaders from around the globe are empowered to be Bold at Work, navigate change, and put their customers at the center of their leadership, strategy, and operations. Attracting, retaining, and developing the best and brightest talent around the globe is critical to the ongoing success of our company. We continue to attract great talent due to our strong culture: a culture where employees can be creative, feel supported and empowered, and are encouraged to think boldly about new ideas.

If you've ever wondered what a seawolf is, Stony Brook University (SBU) might be the place for you. Home of the SBU Seawolves, the university was established by New York State in 1957 and is one of four university centers in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It has an enrollment of about 25,000 students, including some 3,300 graduate students. SBU offers about 140 undergraduate majors and minors, more than 100 master's degree programs, 40 doctoral programs, and more than 30 graduate certificate programs at about a dozen colleges and schools. The student teacher ratio at SBU is 18:1.