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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

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As technology continues to take a larger role in corporate sustainability practices, CIOs can play a key role in driving both business value and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Net zero: Utilize green software practices that can reduce energy consumption. Producing only 1.5%

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Persefoni’s carbon accounting platform raises $9.7 million

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million more in funding to support its international expansion, product development and recruitment efforts. Boosting the company’s environmental, social and corporate governance bona fides is the addition of Robert G. The carbon accounting and management platform Persefoni now has $9.7

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Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation

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He believes the way to get there is to prioritize recruiting channels where they can tap into a wider variety of potential recruits for the company. While he wouldn’t discuss revenue, he did say in spite of the pandemic, the business is growing rapidly and sales are up 155% in terms of net new sales over last year.

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Robo-advisor StashAway gets $25M Series D led by Sequoia Capital India

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Co-founder and chief executive officer Michele Ferrario told TechCrunch that many of StashAway’s employees have been with the company since the start, so this gives its team members a chance to cash out stock options that have vested while creating a more compelling compensation package for recruiting talent.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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She points to examples at Trainline, where the firm has introduced diverse recruitment panels and D&I targets, as well as partnerships with coding tech school ADA in Paris and Future Frontiers, a charity equipping students from disadvantaged backgrounds across 200 secondary schools in London and Edinburgh. “The

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Why Companies Can — and Should — Recommit to DEI in the Wake of the SCOTUS Decision

Harvard Business Review

Next, review HR practices like recruiting (including casting a wider net for candidates since the college pipeline will now be less diverse); onboarding (since some students will have less exposure to DEI than others); and performance reviews, pay, and promotion (to ensure there is no racial bias).

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From Construction To AI Diagnostics, Here Are 5 Areas Where Seed Investors Are Most Active

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Hundreds of professional futurists now work in government, academia and other sectors, analyzing demographic, technological and climatic trends to envision what life will look like years from now. New York-based Skillit , a recruitment platform for skilled construction labor, picked up an $8.5 million last spring.