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Poppy for Medicine: A Village Based Solution to Afghanistan’s Poppy Crisis?
August 30th, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
The Value Of Carbon Disclosure
June 23rd, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by Laurance Allen
Over the past 7 years the Carbon Disclosure Project has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process. And their website has become the largest repository of corporate greenhouse gas emissions data in the world.
The Global E-Sustainability Initiative
June 21st, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by Laurance Allen
A joint partnership between IT service providers, hardware and software manufacturers, the U.N.’s Environment Programme and the International Telecommunication Union, GESI aims to foster sustainable development and improve environmental sustainability in the industry.
PBS To Cover Social Entrepreneurs
June 18th, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by PBS | 6.18.07
NOW on PBS is devoting an entire beat to covering people who use business strategies for humanitarian purposes - also known as social entrepreneurs. The NOW broadcast will investigate more than a dozen social entrepreneurs, the website features news, inspiration and tools.
PBS with the Skoll Foundation are also sponsoring the Project Enterprise Contest — a contest where users nominate a promising social innovator and they follow the winner’s trials and tribulations.
Call For End To Quarterly Guidance
June 18th, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by Francesco Guerrera @ The Financial Times
An unprecedented coalition of large companies, pension funds, and trade unions urged corporate America to scrap quarterly earnings guidance in an attempt to curtail the influence of hedge funds and other short-term investors.
Investors Are Making Life Uncomfortable For Boards
May 31st, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by The Economist | 5.31.07
IS THIS, to use the words of Martin Lipton, a veteran Wall Street lawyer, the age of the imperial shareholder? Owners in America are putting executives under an increasingly harsh spotlight. “Activist” hedge funds have found that they can make a lot of money by amassing stakes in companies and pressing managers, sometimes by taking board seats themselves, to make changes that force the share price upwards.
In South Africa, Poor Health Can Kill Small Businesses
May 30th, 2007
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by The Wharton School | 5.30.07
Health Economics
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