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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. Up one position to second place in the Better World list, Warwick dates its earliest modules on sustainability to 2011. Over time, more were added; two years ago, the topic was woven into all core courses.

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This Week’s Fund News: Nest Invests in Offshore Wind Farm

Chris Hall

BSR is one of the UK’s largest integrated solar developers, and since its inception in 2011 has developed, built and operated nearly a gigawatt of solar and energy storage plants in the UK. ICG Infrastructure Equity raised €1.5 GW of operational renewable capacity in the next five years – which could power 375,000 homes.

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Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity?

Daniel Burrus

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of twenty core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, has worked its way into our lives. IBM Watson first shot to fame back in 2011 by beating two of Jeopardy’s greatest champions on TV.

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Urban planner forecasts the future of Aussie cities

Sustainability Matters

As Australia’s fastest growing city, Melbourne increased by 806,800 people between 2011 and 2021, and is experiencing severe congestion, commuting and affordability issues. By 2041, the number of people living in the City of Melbourne is expected to double.

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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Compliance and risk still play an important role, but we see CSOs increasingly take more responsibility for value creation.” Weinreb Group – a San Francisco–based, woman-owned recruiting agency specializing in ESG professionals – published its first CSO survey in 2011, when just 29 U.S. public companies employed CSOs.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Promise of Limitless Possibilities

Daniel Burrus

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of 20 core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, is rapidly working its way into our lives from Amazon’s Alexa and Facebook’s M, to Google’s Now and Apple’s Siri. Another AI system that has been getting a lot of press is IBM’s Watson.

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A Dignity First Corporate Demand for Climate Action

Sustainable Round Table

Indeed, I am persuaded that centering the magnification of the dignity of all stakeholders involved in value creation as the purpose of leadership – at every level – is the breakthrough paradigm change for the 21st century. As emerging science across disciplines (e.g.