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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Compliance and risk still play an important role, but we see CSOs increasingly take more responsibility for value creation.” By 2010, household products giant Unilever had developed a “Sustainable Living Plan” geared to reducing the company’s environmental footprint. public companies employed CSOs.

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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. Up one position to second place in the Better World list, Warwick dates its earliest modules on sustainability to 2011. The key is to never get complacent.

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Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity?

Daniel Burrus

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of twenty core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, has worked its way into our lives. IBM’s Watson is a good example of a fast-developing AI system. Watson is a cognitive computer that learns over time.

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This Week’s Fund News: Nest Invests in Offshore Wind Farm

Chris Hall

The projects are currently under development by Constantine Group subsidiary Pelagic Energy Developments. BSR is one of the UK’s largest integrated solar developers, and since its inception in 2011 has developed, built and operated nearly a gigawatt of solar and energy storage plants in the UK.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Promise of Limitless Possibilities

Daniel Burrus

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of 20 core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, is rapidly working its way into our lives from Amazon’s Alexa and Facebook’s M, to Google’s Now and Apple’s Siri. Another AI system that has been getting a lot of press is IBM’s Watson.

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The Time is Right to Mandate Financial Reporting of ESG Issues

Steven Mintz

the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) was founded in 2011. Including the SASB information in an  integrated report  provides a single location for both financial and sustainability information and enables companies to link the SASB information explicitly to long-term value creation. In the U.S.,

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Urban planner forecasts the future of Aussie cities

Sustainability Matters

These neighbourhoods will be enhanced through the promotion of mixed-use developments such as courtyard housing, townhouses and residential apartments built above shops. Adopting the 15- and 20-minute neighbourhood principles across new developments will allow children to walk or cycle to school from day one no matter where they live.