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University of Texas Institutions Receive $5 Million to Expand Blackstone LaunchPad to Additional Campuses

3BL Media

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation was founded at the time of Blackstone’s initial public offering in 2007 with substantial commitments from the Firm’s employees. LaunchPad has achieved success across 24 campuses in the U.S. About Blackstone Charitable Foundation. For more information, go to [link].

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How U.S. Businesses Can Compete with China in Emerging Markets: Transitioning from a ‘Death Economy’ to a ‘Life Economy’

James Militzer

As the country experienced increasing social benefits from its embrace of what it refers to as “a free market economy with socialist aspects,” it began to take steps to amplify those benefits by also protecting and enhancing natural capital — a strategy that started in 2007, and has since become firmly embedded in Chinese society.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Throws Oil and Coal Industries in a Tailspin

Edouard Stenger

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought our global economy to a standstill, with fears of the worst recession since 1929. Economies around the world are reeling from the cascading shocks wrought upon them since the beginning of March. In the US, electricity generation from coal went from 50% in 2007 to 15% now.

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6 Questions on Multinationals and the B Corp Movement

B the Change

Experts from B Lab’s Standards, Certification & Verification, and Global Partner Business Development teams share insights on the challenges and opportunities of bringing multinational corporations into the B Corp movement. The first 82 B Corps to certify in 2007 were all small- and medium-size businesses.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Global businesses should apply this foundational principle to the private enterprises that public authorities charter. Unger, Roberto, “Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics,” Themes and Scopes of This Book, page 6, Princeton University Press, 2007.