Progress or pinkwashing: Who benefits from women-focused capital funds?
An increase in the number of women-focused capital funds promises to help address gender gaps in the provision of financial capital.
An increase in the number of women-focused capital funds promises to help address gender gaps in the provision of financial capital.
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2020
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Conventional wisdom indicates that market discipline and transparency ensures that financial data of public firms are more reliable for potential investors than financial reports from private companies. Contrary to this widely ...
Economics & Business
Sep 25, 2019
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A few euros, a couple of mouse clicks and a tree is planted—as air travel is increasingly becoming a source of guilt, consumers and companies are looking for other ways to ease their conscience and reduce their carbon footprint.
Environment
Sep 18, 2019
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The head of French energy giant Total announced Saturday that the company would invest a hundred million dollars annually on a new forest preservation and reforestation project.
Environment
Jul 7, 2019
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Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, forever.
Environment
Mar 6, 2019
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United Technologies is breaking itself into three independent companies now that it has sealed its $23 billion acquisition of aviation electronics maker Rockwell Collins.
Business
Nov 27, 2018
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Australia's dominant telecommunications company Telstra Wednesday announced plans to axe 8,000 jobs—a quarter of its workforce—as part of a drastic new strategy to cope with an increasingly competitive industry.
Business
Jun 20, 2018
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Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will invest 75 million euro ($89 million) in TTTech, a Vienna, Austria-based company that makes autonomous driving technologies and safety controls for Audi cars and others, stepping ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 14, 2017
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A new U.S. security measure banning many electronic devices on flights from eight mostly Muslim countries is leading travelers to reconsider their plans to fly through some airports in the Middle East.
Other
Mar 21, 2017
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Wireless equipment maker Ericsson AB says it will close down its telecom cable manufacturing operation and cut around 350 jobs in Sweden.
Business
May 21, 2013
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