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Two Factors that Determine When ESG Creates Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

The paper “Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality,” published in 2016, marked a significant shift in perceptions of corporate sustainability. It demonstrated that focusing on financially material ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors positively impacts portfolio returns and shareholder value.

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Make America Innovate Again – Digital Transformation, Citizen Participation, and Government Efficiency

Qmarkets

As a general rule, we hold our governments to a higher standard than that which we hold private businesses and corporations to. Private sector businesses are expected to only look out for themselves, but the government is meant to look out for us. Or, for that matter, any government body at the local, state or national level.

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Over 650 Projects Submitted to Campaign Bringing Tech&Science Closer to People

InnovationManagement

Over 650 submitted projects from all over the world, over 70 international partners including UNESCO, governments, NGOs and media – these are the first facts and figures from the Bringing tech&science closer to people campaign, launched in November 2016.

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Solar energy adoption barriers: a vicious cycle?

Christensen Institute

For example, in 2016 the government of Nigeria signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) worth $2.5 However, those projects were stalled for several reasons, one of which was concern that the existing transmission infrastructure could not accommodate the additional power generation. GW of power to the grid.

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Bubble PPM | G Cloud 9 (G9) Approved Project Portfolio Management supplier | PPM software

Bubblegroup

Bubble PPM – G Cloud 9 approved Project Portfolio Management software The UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service selects Bubble Innovator Ltd as a G Cloud 9 supplier on the 2017-18 Digital Marketplace, opening up further opportunities for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) services to the public sector. 2016 audit).

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Taking advantage of emergence for discovery

Paul Hobcraft

the Project discovery Problem, 2. the governance discovery problem. Let me describe the four discovery pathways as direct quotes from her paper as it does a good job of the why: “ The project discovery problem is at the heart of innovation. The knowledge integration discovery problem, 3.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

Planbox was quickly recognized as a Leader by Forrester in the Innovation Management Wave Report in 2016. The company grew its revenue by more than 250% and doubled its workforce at a strikingly fast pace since 2016 while remaining profitable. About Planbox.

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