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Cutting carbon use depends on changing social norms and behaviour as much as technology.
WeWork wanted to be a lot more than a shared workspace.
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Adam Neumann both controlled and managed the co-working company he founded in 2011. A finance scholar explains why that can be a serious problem in venture capital-backed startups.
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Research shows how decision making by investors is affected by the one-hour clock change.
Flash in the pan?
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WeWork’s uncertain future reflects how investors have wised up to the hype around Silicon Valley start ups.
In Ethiopia, rainfall is highly correlated with income and poorer parent’s ability to invest.
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Contrary to the belief that resource strained parents invest in academically stronger children, studies show that Ethiopian parents tend to invest more in the child with lower academic capabilities.
Our cities need to adapt to cope with more extreme weather events and other impacts from climate change.
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A call to make our cities more resilient to climate change could drive one of the largest new infrastructure builds in history.
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Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Christian Bale plays quirky hedge fund Michael Burry in The Big Short (2015).
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Michael Burry was right about the bubble that caused the Global Financial Crisis. He’s wrong about the next bubble being passive investment.
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It has undoubtedly been a game-changer for entrepreneurial finance, but researchers are discovering new inequalities and risks for investors.
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The only possible solution to the crisis, socialisation, is the one that the current government will not consider.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon currently chairs the Business Roundtable.
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A group of America’s most powerful CEOs said companies should no longer merely focus on maximizing shareholder wealth. A business professor explains why it’s not a big deal.
Without consumer demand investments can be bad for firms and bad for the economy.
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Investments only makes sense if there are markets for the things those investments will produce. It isn’t clear that there are.
Even the pros don’t know what’s up.
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A growing number of investors, policymakers and others say the US economy may be at risk of spiraling downward. A finance professor explains how to ride it out.
It’s true, research says.
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While the US is a nation of immigrants, China is not. That’s a huge competitive advantage when doing business in emerging markets.
What if investors could identify risks from companies’ approaches to gender early?
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Gender lens analysis identifies risks and opportunities early. It is catching on.
Ten years ago, almost a third of self-employed people in the UK contributed to pension schemes. That figure has dropped dramatically.
Critics say the U.S. can’t afford a Green New Deal.
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Democrats such as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Markey are proposing an ambitious decarbonization plan that critics are calling unaffordable. A green economist explains how the US could pay for it.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference.
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The Fed abruptly ended two years of aggressive interest rate hikes, signaling the longest economic expansion on record may be coming to a close.
John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, died in January.
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The index fund revolutionized investing for millions. Its founder died on Jan. 16.
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There are a lot of similarities between the state of tech companies today and when the 2000 dot-com bubble burst.