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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO

Today it can actually mean better profit, stronger customer loyalty, and longer company sustainability. According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. Doing good for the planet is not inversely proportional to doing good business.

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IDC Foundry India CIO Summit 2024: How CIOs Are Transitioning into the AI Era

CIO

India’s digital revolution will take center stage as Arvind Gupta, the esteemed Head of the Digital India Foundation, expounds on driving social change through technology while scaling digital initiatives in his session, India, the Data Capital of the World – Exploring India’s Digital Evolution.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.

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Products and Services that Address Deep Rooted Social Problems

Strategy Driven

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. It’s good to see companies doing well by doing so much good—and combining environmental, social, and health benefits to serve the most needy.

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5 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Business Growth

Women on Business

There is nothing like socializing with like-minded professionals! Many women are choosing to adapt sustainable and Eco-friendly business practices. For example, since 2004, I’ve spent countless hours as a volunteer SCORE counselor and personally mentor aspiring entrepreneurs. Many of us know the value of networking.

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Hottest MusicTech startups of 2018

Apiumhub

If we look back at the history, we would definitely pay attention to the iTunes creation in 2004, the rise of giants like Spotify and Soundcloud, which helped transform streaming culture into a digital global community. Licd is a commercial music licencing for social video. Primephonic.

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Andy Warhol, Clay Christensen, and Vitalik Buterin walk into a bar

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Today, many of our most highly paid professionals are entertainers: actors, musicians, athletes, TikTok stars and other social media influencers. At the same time, much of what people do to entertain each other—both in person and on social media—remains unpaid and treated as outside the value boundary.

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