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Otaviano Canuto: Some Economies May Soon Face a Hard Landing
Weaker performance of emerging markets is expected in the immediate future. This year began with simultaneous signs of a slowdown in global economic growth and a reorientation toward tightening of monetary policies in advanced economies. In its latest Global Economic
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Charlotte McCurdy Getting Creative about Climate Change: Time to Plant the Seed
Charlotte McCurdy, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor, wants creatives to join the fight against climate change. McCurdy believes the world needs more STEM innovators to solve its most pressing challenges — and more dreamers to ask
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Active Re COO Luis Antonio Ibáñez: Sound Underwriting, Respect, and an Eye for Opportunity…
‘Our policy? No policy. We have strategy instead,’ quips COO of reinsurance giant Active Re Active Re, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Barbados, has business development offices in Miami, Panama City, and Madrid. The company has 54 representatives around
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Société Générale Congo: Innovation in Congo Puts Societe Generale in Leadership Position
Société Générale Congo launched in April 2012 as a subsidiary of leading European financial services provider Société Générale Group. It has since become one of the main players in the country’s banking sector. Managing director and CEO Alain Calmels has
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A Reacquaintance with Inflation: Safe Havens in Short Supply
An entire generation of workers, executives, and entrepreneurs has never experienced inflation and know the phenomenon only from history books. The Great Inflation of the 1970s is usually attributed to the sudden rise of oil prices after OPEC asserted its
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Graphite and Graphene for the Green Transition: Tirupati Graphite Leading the Way
As the world moves deeper into the energy transition, new materials are needed to support technologies that will lower carbon outputs for the future. Graphite is officially listed as a critical mineral in the EU and the US. Its potential
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Spring Reads: Three Business Books on the CFI.co Radar
Naomi Snelling buries herself in some inspiring works that bring meaning — and more — to corporate life. Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies by Ranjay Gulati A wave of books about corporate purpose has broken over
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Rebecca Carter, WiseEnergy: Aligning the Stars to Create a Smart Solar System
When Rebecca Carter joined WiseEnergy as COO in February 2019, she was seeking to return to an international role in a socially responsible industry with enormous growth potential. She was successfully assimilated into the renewables sector and within nine months
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AVEVA: Software is the Key to Sustainable Industries
Digital thinking and data-led operations will accelerate the drive to net-zero and a decade of action. By Peter Herweck, CEO of AVEVA The world is on the cusp of transformation to sustainability. Global leaders are faced with a golden —
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CBRE: Multifamily Assets Consolidate Real Estate Investment Growth
Real estate investor appetite for European multifamily properties has been thriving in the past decade. Resilient income-driven performance, sustained by strong occupier market fundamentals and long-term socio-demographic trends, should continue to fuel the rise of this asset class. Last year
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