Business

Blossom Capital Is Proof That Investing in Diversity Yields Superior Returns

February 26, 2020

Ophelia Brown’s Blossom Capital is a superior performer. The London-based venture capital firm’s $85 million first fund is ranked in the top 5% of funds raised in the US and Europe in the past year, according to Cambridge Associates and Prequin. A second $185 million fund took just three months to raise.

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Dominos, Buffer and Adidas: What Do They Have in Common?

February 19, 2020

The workplace is changing radically with the infiltration of digital technologies, demands of the younger demographic and high expectations of a superior seamless customer experience.

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Microsoft’s Carbon Negative Pledge: Is CSR Far More Complex Than We Think?

February 12, 2020

Microsoft recently pledged to remove "all of the carbon" from the environment that it alone has emitted since the firm began operating in 1975.

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Here’s One of Amazon’s Biggest Weak Spots

February 11, 2020

The last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of data regulations worldwide - and the size of fines that regulators can impose has risen too. Yet despite this, reports of data leakage from the cloud are increasing by the day - in both number and scale.

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Does Jeff Bezos’ WhatsApp Hack Mean WhatsApp is Unsafe?

February 5, 2020

Following the news of Jeff Bezos’ phone hacking via WhatsApp, questions about the messaging app’s safety are being asked by its 300 million daily active users.

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A Force for Good: Is Nespresso’s Sustainability Practice More Than Just Words?

February 4, 2020

With more companies adopting sustainable practices and integrating green strategies into their business model, the past decade has ushered in a new era of action on sustainability from business leadership – and it’s here to stay.

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Facebook: The Company the World Loves, Hates, and Loves to Hate

February 3, 2020

By Melissa Parrish, VP Group Director, and Sarah Dawson, Researcher, Forrester Research

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The Most Powerful Entrepreneurs in Modern History

January 30, 2020

Rutger Bruining, CEO of personal biography-writing service StoryTerrace, offers perspective into the origin stories of some of the biggest entrepreneurs of the 2000s.

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Unilever Is the Brand Most Praised By NGOs

January 28, 2020

Nestlé tops the ranking of brands most criticised.

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The Rise of the Millennial Investor

January 16, 2020

The inter-generational transfer of wealth is a fascinating trend that has taken many analysts by surprise.

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Employees Need to Go Green Before the Business Can

January 15, 2020

In a system where our capitalist economy can seem in conflict with shrinking our corporate carbon footprint, what can us business leaders really do?

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Here’s How You Coach Yourself into Thinking on Your Feet

January 15, 2020

RADA Business, the commercial arm of world-renowned drama school, is helping business leaders improve their confidence with the ability to improvise successfully in pressurised situations.

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