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Climate
NEW STUDY CLAIMS TO RESOLVE ISSUES ON GLOBAL WARMING
You might have thought the debate was over a long time ago, but then came "Climategate" and the climate change sceptics were riding high. Scientific data on changes in global weather patterns are fraught with complexity, but a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, part...
31 July 2010
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Corporate social responsibility
HSBC CHAIRMAN ON VALUE IN VALUES
Stephen Green is perhaps an unusual bank chairman. At the head of HSBC, he escaped from the waves of recriminations, not to mention the criminal prosecutions that other banks suffered during the financial crisis of 2007-09. Prudent lending, perhaps? It wasn't because HSBC held investment banking in ...
17 July 2010
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Sustainability
UN BODY SAYS CEOS SEEK SUSTAINABILITY 'TIPPING POINT'
Chief executives of major corporations want a clear message from investors to support initiatives towards a sustainable global economy. That's the contention, at least, of the agency known as the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment. UNPRI held a session in New York at the end of May,...
17 July 2010
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Strategic HR
BUSINESS IN THE CLOUDS
We used to think it was disparaging comment to accuse a fellow worker of having his head in the clouds. Not now. The house journal of the consultancy Booz made space for an outside consultant to write about being outside – thanks to the benefits of cloud computing. But it's not just the usual telewo...
10 July 2010
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Leadership
WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY?
...Study after study purport to tell us what CEOs think about the big issues facing the world and business. These individual may well be in a position that most of us can't reach, and so they see things differently, more clearly, from that lofty vantage point. IBM has produced one such report recent...
09 July 2010
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Big issues
FIVE 'CRUCIBLES OF INNOVATION' SHAPE THE FUTURE – MCKINSEY STUDY
...It sounds at bit like an attempt to recast Michael Porter's five forces for the 21st Century. Consultants and McKinsey sense the something big is on the doorstep, not yet the elephant in the room, but something that is about to become really important and that we don't quite understand. "Five cru...
09 July 2010
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Corporate social responsibility
PHILANTHROPY 'NOT INCOMPATIBLE' WITH BUSINESS
The founder of the luxury Banyan Tree hotel group, Ho Kwon Ping, may not entirely believe Milton Friedman got it wrong when he said that the only social responsibility of a business is to increase its profits. "There need not be a dichotomy between being a good capitalist businessman and a person wh...
09 July 2010
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Corporate finance
LIKE OIL AND WATER – PRIVATE EQUITY, CORPORATE BANKING
Some things don't mix well. In the world of corporate finance, there's a well trodden path that involve raising debt capital and then going back for some equity. It can work the other way around, too: a private equity fund buys the business and then refinances it through loans using the collateral o...
08 July 2010
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Corporate finance
'BUY-BACKS ARE BACK' – MAKING MONEY BY BUYING LOW
Share buy-backs became the thing to do for much of the past 15 years at least. Often instead of paying dividends, companies would use any surplus cash to buy back shares from the market, thus ...returning money to shareholders..., but only those shareholders who wanted it then, while reducing the nu...
08 July 2010
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Political economy
G20 REPORT CARD ON INVESTMENT – GOOD, NOT GREAT
That's the view of the Organisation for Economic Co-operating and Development and the World Trade Organisation. In their third report to the Group of 20 countries, the two multilateral agencies note that of the G20, only Argentina has resisted imposing some sort of restrictions on cross-border inves...
19 June 2010
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