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Grupo T-Solar – The Generation Game: In 2020, That Means CSR, Environment, Efficiency and Opportunities for All Employees
Grupo T-Solar – a leading independent renewable power producer and asset manager – generated more than 595 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean electricity in 2019. The company has an enviable record in the development and operation of renewable power plants –
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Big Egos, Poker Faces, and Deep Pockets Meet to Address Oil Glut
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has a poker face and knows how to use it. A real-life display of his diplomacy-on-ice takes place today as OPEC oil and energy ministers meet online to discuss ways to avoid a further collapse
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The Great Equaliser That Was Not
In a macabre spin on the corona pandemic, some sociologists and economists tentatively hail the deadly virus as the great equaliser they had been waiting for: the great event that forces the global community to re-examine its destructive ways. History
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Business in Times of Corona: The Lure of Rustbelts When Lean Is No Longer Mean
During their short lifetime, shrimp barely migrate. Aided by a snap of their tail and the tidal currents, the crustaceans may cover a distance of perhaps a few thousand meters in a day. However, once caught, shrimp become a migrating
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Harvard Business School on Impact-Weighted Accounts: the Missing Piece in Economy Puzzle
Capitalism is in need of a renaissance. Despite headlines of strong global economic growth, there are signs that all is not well. Environmental advocates have been leading calls for change before the climate crisis produces irreversible changes to our world.
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Business in Times of Corona: The Dangerous Fruit of the Magic Money Tree
In one of life’s little ironies, it was not the senator from Vermont but the billionaire businessman from New York who brought social democracy to the United States. The massive federal aid package now working its way through Congress is
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Business in Times of Corona: Time to Make America Great Again
The corona pandemic rapidly engulfing the world has led to a sudden reversal in the plight of the nation state as a concept. Rescued from well-deserved oblivion, even smaller countries that have traditionally embraced multilateralism as the only viable way
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Business in Times of Corona: Trillions mobilised to Prop Up Economies
There seems to be no upper limit to the volume of funds that governments can deploy to keep the fires burning. As the US administration mulls a whopping $1.2 trillion stimulus package, the European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday surprised
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Jim O’Neill: A Living Wage for Capitalism
At 3.6%, unemployment in the United States remains near its lowest level since the late 1960s. There are even signs that people who had previously dropped out of the labour force are being attracted back into it as employers scour
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Mohamed A El-Erian: America’s Unusual Recovery is Now Also its Longest
Data released over the next few months will show that the current US economic expansion is the longest on record. But while the United States continues to outperform other advanced economies, this success has yet to dispel many Americans’ persistent
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