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Trust In Business Grows (Lance Turner Editor’s Note)
Business leaders have a lot on their plates these days. And now we can add another chore: saving the world. read more >
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Nature Abhors A Vacuum (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Another year, another moment to contemplate the Eurasia Group’s list of 10 greatest global threats. read more >
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Future Shock (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
BlackRock won’t be betting on climate change denialists — or on companies that refuse to plan for a future economy that is different from the one we’re all accustomed to. read more >
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Upside Down World (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
It’s almost like the Business Roundtable heard Olivia Farrell’s speech when she accepted the Little Rock Rotary Club’s Business & Professional Leader of the Year award in June and decided to get on board. read more >
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Futuristic Thinking (Editorial)
A roundtable discussion hosted by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission showed a clear consensus that short-term thinking that suffocates long-range planning and investment is a real problem recognized by the vast majority of public company executives. read more >
The Short-Termism of Protectionism (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
BlackRock Inc. has more than $5 trillion to invest, so when Larry Fink talks, corporations at least hear him out. read more >
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Those Meddling Kids (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Despite having daunting expenses, younger consumers seem less impressed with getting the lowest possible price. Instead, millennials are picky about what they spend money on. read more >
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‘The Powerful Forces of Short-Termism’ (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
A couple of weeks ago, a dreamy-eyed idealist called on Wall Street to change its ways, to think about the future and the overall economy, not just today’s share price and this quarter’s dividend. And it wasn’t Bernie Sanders. It was Larry Fink, co-founder and CEO of BlackRock Inc., the largest investor in the world. read more >
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