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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business Review

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies.

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Corporate Empathy Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?” Few would have been surprised to see the airline Ryanair down at 99th.