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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...Business Review article titled “Eclipse of the public corporation,” Jensen (1989) argues that public corporations are inefficient organizational forms because private firms can resolve agency conflicts between investors and managers better than public firms. His prediction initially appeared invalid. As shown in Figure 1, the number of public firms increased sharply...
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Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?
Nature & Environment

Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?

...business benefits and knowledge-sharing on managing natural infrastructure programs. A few new projects and tools are emerging to achieve these two goals. Making the Business Case Natural infrastructure can safeguard and complement traditional water infrastructure systems, for example, by avoiding water pollution that would otherwise need to pass through a conventional...
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Classical studies: it's more than the words
History & The Arts

Classical studies: it's more than the words

...business to set down that which is told me, to believe it is none at all of my business. This I ask the reader to hold true for the whole of my history.' Herodotus 7.152 Some ideas for becoming an historian [Screengrab from Hestia project map] Screengrab from Hestia Project map The word ‘history’ derives from the Greek word ‘historia’ (or historiê in some...
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Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...business, and was trying to reach climate change targets in the most market-based… way possible. We are likely to get this more so now as the right of the party is stronger than it was.” A Dirty Brexit allows the British government to perform a bonfire of air pollution regulations, and a Conservative-led administration has every motive for doing so. The ideologically...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...business model: extracting oil. Adnoc, along with the wider oil and gas industry, has invested in carbon sequestration and making hydrogen fuel from the byproducts of oil extraction. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such measures, even if fully implemented, will only have a small impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The UAE was the first...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites” from national institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau’s warnings about the “cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own surroundings.” Pitilessly ostracizing Mexicans and Muslims, Donald Trump may find much...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...businesses. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with crime and poverty, it is now experiencing social and economic gentrification. As a settlement, it traces its routes back to the early Dutch pioneers - it's named for a Dutch city - and became part of the city of New York in 1873, after its value as an independent agricultural centre had declined....
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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...business know who the best weaver is. It’s like a driver who knows who the best driver is. That is why the people in this village say that I am the best even though I do not call myself that. Catherine (VO) Akwasi Akwaboah is weaving the most prestigious Kente cloth, known as Adwenisi - Adweniso. It means all design motifs are used up and requires consummate skill. Who...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs