BlackRock is making a five-year, $100 million grant to clean energy from its charitable foundation. Microsoft, alongside other supporters such as General Motors, American Airlines, and Bank of America, is providing a mix of equity capital and “offtakes”, or purchase agreements tied to the clean-energy projects. “We’re not doing this to make money,” Larry Fink […]
Paul Stark, General Manager at OnBoard, shares his tips for dealing with a bad board member. Bad board members do crop up. They miss board or committee meetings frequently or show up completely unprepared. They display antagonism toward staff or disrupt meetings with a toxic attitude. They lack sufficient financial literacy to help make informed […]
Surekha Gangakhedkar told the court she printed off company documents to protect herself as she suspected the pending launch of the company’s blood-testing machines in Walgreens would end badly. On Friday, eight years on from quitting her role at Theranos, Gangakhedkar testified at the criminal trial of her former boss, Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO and […]
While the majority of businesses are still oriented to the concept of one leader, today, it's time to evaluate whether the one single business pilot makes a good leader. The pandemic situation has made it easier for everyone to distinguish bad leaders. It's pretty much clear when a 'leader' makes the right (or rush) decision […]
Spotlights dramatically illuminated the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and when the Inspiration4’s nine engines fired just soon after 8 pm ET, the surrounding wetlands were flooded with an explosion of light as the rocket took off into the upper atmosphere, decorating the night’s sky with an eerie light show. Orbital […]
Image by NVIDIA Taiwan - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nvidia-taiwan/27097146880, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59106866 Cook’s inclusion on Time’s list comes just a day after Apple revealed its iPhone13 range alongside its new Apple Watch Series 7 and upgraded iPads. In Cook’s profile, Nike co-founder Phil Knight writes: “What separates the good from the great are intangibles such as character, […]
A click here, a click there; technology has never made it easier for us, as consumers, to purchase what we need. For the corporate world, however, with a myriad of moving parts, this is a very different story. It’s easy to forget just how vastly the buying process differs for corporations versus consumers. For the […]
Following a major redesign of the popular smartphone last year, tech giant Apple has instead opted to make a series of incremental changes across four versions of the iPhone handset. The range’s four new devices are the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Each device is powered by […]
Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? American former businesswoman Elizabeth Holmes was the founder and CEO of the now-defunct health technology company Theranos, which Holmes established in 2003 at just 19 years old. In 2015, Forbes magazine broadcasted her as “the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire” in the US, while Inc. Magazine called her the “next Steve […]
The launch came just two days before the planned launch of another Falcon 9 from Florida on Wednesday, which is set to carry four passengers in what will be the first non-government commercial flight to orbit. The Inspiration4 mission was chartered by American billionaire businessman and pilot Jared Isaccman to raise funds for the St. […]
BHP and KoBold Metals will work together in their search for nickel, lithium, cobalt, and copper in Australia. The companies’ 3-year partnership could help to source nickel used in Tesla’s vehicles, with BHP signing a deal with the electric vehicle manufacturer back in July. KoBold Metals, a mineral exploration company based in Silicon Valley, uses […]
Fiona Logan, Chief Executive of Insights Learning and Development, shares 7 important reflections from navigating throughout the covid-19 pandemic. Over the past 18-months, despite significant challenges, Insights has used the disruption caused by the global pandemic to engage more deeply with our communities and drive customer-centric innovation. Prior to March 2020, we had robust growth […]
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