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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

UVA Darden

We witness with seeming regularity the importance of ESG factors through such high-profile incidents such as Enron’s fraud (2001), the VW “Dieselgate” emissions test scandal (2015) and Facebook’s personal data privacy breach (2018). 1 These factors include a firm’s environmental impact (e.g., This issue came to the fore in 2022 when the U.S.

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Looking For A Successor? Don’t Overlook Your CMO

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Then BlackRock chief Larry Fink issued his 2018 declaration: “Contribute to society or risk our support.” In 2018, investment in ESG funds stood at just $5 billion, according to McKinsey. Which means your CMO might just be your company’s greatest asset—and your ideal heir apparent. market cap speak, people listen.

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What You Need to Know about 401(k) Plans and Cryptocurrency

Zenefits

Since 2018, there has been a 237% increase in individuals owning Bitcoin. After all, crypto assets are known for instant gains and losses — not long-term holdings. However, world governments and financial regulators consider crypto to be a digital asset, not a real currency. Buyers can get “safe” government bonds for 1 or 2%.

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Self-Care for Coaches

Ed Batista

Manage Your Assets (and Say No More Often) When wearing my CEO hat I have to be mindful that my small business has two (and only two) assets: my time and my reputation. I'm the sole steward of those assets--if my time is wasted or my reputation suffers, no one pays a price but me. Get Outside (Jessica Stillman, Inc.

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EMPROPAZ: Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Crisis

UVA Darden

The Impact Between December 2018 and June 2023, 197,000 people — 59 percent of them women and 35 percent with no more than a primary education — accessed financial services and specialized training. Their productive units show year-on-year growth in sales (25 percent), profits (31 percent) and productive assets (31 percent).

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Podcast Roundup: Strengths-Based Leadership, Empathy, and Positive Culture

15Five

So when we were planning the Best-Self Management podcast back in 2018, we were determined to rise above the din and only produce episodes where business leaders could walk away with actionable advice on building highly engaged, high performing teams. .” It’s actually one of our most precious assets during turmoil.

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Make Or Buy? It Was Biggest Decision For Marshmallow Manufacturer

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And now we’ve spent more than $100 million just in manufacturing assets.” So Tierney retrofitted a small facility in Wisconsin with his own machines to make his own production runs for Stuffed Puffs beginning in late 2018. Then, after Walmart picked up the product line in 2019, Tierney quickly ran out of capacity.

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