Britain's rivers and coasts are polluted—there's no escaping that fact—and water companies are coming under more and more pressure to fix things. Most recently, a law firm has announced its plans to take collective legal ...
Environment
Aug 14, 2023
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Secrecy has become as important for corporations as transparent and taxable profits used to be, according to Raymond W. Baker in his new book Invisible Trillions. Global capitalism, he argues, operates beyond the rule of ...
Economics & Business
Feb 15, 2023
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So-called "soft laws", such as agreements, principles and declarations, are effective in getting more women represented on corporate boards across the world, according to new research by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU).
Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2023
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They wanted the campus experience, but their colleges sent them home to learn online during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, students at more than 25 U.S. universities are filing lawsuits against their schools demanding partial ...
Education
May 4, 2020
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Corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) and other questionable business practices that ultimately harm stakeholders occur frequently, drawing vastly different reactions from investors.
Economics & Business
Apr 30, 2020
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Firms who breach non-accounting securities laws are more likely to subsequently violate accounting rules.
Economics & Business
Jul 1, 2019
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The US administration is stepping up scrutiny of Big Tech firms, which could result in a series of drawn-out legal battles aimed at reining in—and potentially breaking up—giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook.
Business
Jun 4, 2019
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The head of personal security for Mark Zuckerberg was on leave Friday pending a probe into complaints of sexual harassment and racism, some of it involving the Facebook chief's wife.
Business
May 31, 2019
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From concerns about data sharing to the hosting of harmful content, every week seems to bring more clamour for new laws to regulate the technology giants and make the internet "safer". But what if our existing data protection ...
Internet
Feb 14, 2019
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Australian security agencies have begun using sweeping new powers to access encrypted communications even before a promised review meant to address concerns from the likes of Google, Apple and Facebook.
Internet
Feb 8, 2019
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