‘Decarb bros’ think the best way to combat climate change is to ditch the gloom of earlier environmentalism and focus on what new technology can do.
Category: Corporate Social Responsibility
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Coach Has a New Sustainable Fashion Brand. Will Shoppers Go For It?
Coachtopia, a new sub-brand from the American fashion house, uses waste or recycled materials to make new products. Will it catch on?
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Helping People of Color Find Their Footing in the Arts
As cultural institutions work to address their diversity problems, a new recruitment firm has a plan to make those changes last.
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In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution
Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.
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No, ‘Wokeness’ Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse
Blaming workplace diversity or environmentally and socially conscious investments for the firm’s downfall signals a “complete lack of understanding of how banks work,” one expert said.
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After Bank Debacle, Silicon Valley Reckons With Its Image
Even as start-ups and investors began recovering their money from Silicon Valley Bank, the episode exposed the tech industry’s vulnerabilities.
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A Bank President Who Embraces the Unconventional
Priscilla Sims Brown’s atypical childhood has helped her lead a financial institution from a different perspective as Amalgamated Bank’s chief executive.
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On Wall St., ‘Socially Responsible’ Is Common Sense. In Congress, It’s Political.
Lawmakers are trying to restrict these investment choices in workplace retirement plans, but big fund managers are trying to give shareholders a voice.
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Biden Is Expected to Veto an Anti-E.S.G. Resolution From Congress
President Biden is expected to use his first veto to protect environmental, social and corporate governance investment considerations in retirement plans.
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Leave Russia? A Year Later Many Companies Can’t, or Won’t.
Not all Western companies packed up and left Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Some say Moscow has tied their hands, while others choose to stay put.
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Third Top FTX Executive Pleads Guilty in Fraud Investigation
Nishad Singh, an FTX founder, pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried.
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The E.S.G. Fight Has Come to This: Bankers Suing Lawyers
Kentucky passed a law targeting banks and their climate policies. Bankers sued the attorney general. Whose definition of investment risk should prevail?