2017
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Shareholder Proposals Target Climate Change Risk
- 28/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Research
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Actual voting data seems to confirm the study; many shareholders are coming off the sidelines on environmental and social shareholder proposals.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Stability of Markets
- 27/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Funding trends
Artificial intelligence (AI) is useful for optimally controlling an existing system, one with clearly understood risks. It excels at pattern matching and control mechanisms.
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More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
- 26/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Innovation
The article also touted infrastructure as a new growth area. But as we’ve written, infrastructure deals are getting a deserved bad name in the US.
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Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory
- 25/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Funding trends
These were not top-tier b-school alum; they were writers, computer programmers, online forum moderators and ended up owing a fortune.
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Mutual Funds Cut Uber Valuation by as Much as 15%
- 24/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Franchising
Since then, the reports from the Uber side as to where SoftBank stands have kept shifting, and its allies can’t keep their story straight.
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Private Equity Firms Sued Over Retailer Bankruptcies
- 23/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Funding trends
Gymboree’s June bankruptcy filing occurred days after it couldn’t make a semiannual interest payment on debt dating back to Bain Capital’s $1.8 billion 2010 buyout.
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The Retirement Wealth Inequality Machine
- 22/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Franchising
Thus, how such programs are set up and administered is likely to merely expand financial asset management fees while collecting taxes and penalties to boost the treasury.
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How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
- 21/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Finance
More recently, the CIMAvax-EGF vaccine for lung cancer became the first Cuban biopharmaceutical product to carry out clinical trials on American soil.
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Time to Stand Up for Dumb
- 20/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Economics
Let’s start out with a smart device undershoot that seldom gets mentioned: e-books. E-book sales fell in 2015 and fell even more in 2017 as both paperback and hardback sales rose.
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Wizards and Prophets Face Off to Save the Planet
- 19/12/2017
- Posted by: Sebastian
- Categoría: Research
Ideally with nuclear power, because it has the smallest footprint of any low-carbon source, but you could also have giant concentrated solar plants and that sort of thing.
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