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Sustainable Investment Funds Can Encourage Worse Behavior

The Horizons Tracker

Sustainable behaviors The researchers scrutinized the emissions records of more than three thousand major corporations spanning the years 2002 to 2020. Surprisingly, instead of stimulating endeavors for improvement, depriving these brown entities of easily obtainable funds compels them to persist in their existing production methods.

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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. based product and services businesses that also tended to manufacture and deliver their products via U.S.-based based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

So were the currency and debt crises of 1997 and 1998, and the stock market collapse of 2000-2002. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits). So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002). None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Though there were empires and kingdoms, the gross world product (GWP) was largely flat. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. It is formed at conception and does not change. Does biology inform business?

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