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How to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals into your business
Since their launch five years ago, the U. N.’s Sustainable Development Goals have been the topic of conversation in corporate sustainability. Then came COVID-19, threatening our health and the health of our loved ones, upheaving the economy, and causing us to rethink how we work and live, the conversation has shifted.
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How to Integrate Social Media with Ecommerce (2021)
A smart company goes where the eyeballs are — and they’re on social media more than any other type of content platform. Blending your ecommerce platform with social media will help you catch your audience’s attention and turn them into customers. Here are some social media ecommerce statistics that will have you thinki
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How will climate change affect the global economy?
Study finds Africa, South America and the Middle East likely to be hardest hit Measuring the preparedness of the world’s 82 largest economies and based on current trends, the report found that the fallout of warming temperatures would cost the global economy $7.9bn by 2050 as increased droughts, flooding and crop failu
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Not A Drill: 3 Actions For Pivoting Your Business Today
During chaos and uncertainty, it can be challenging to focus our nervous energy in productive ways. As a futurist who helps companies anticipate and navigate crises like this, I’m encouraging fellow leaders and global clients to engage their entire orgs in a set of strategic exercises. The three activities below not on
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Old National’s Lordy Reinink on Asian American,
Old National’s Lordy Reinink on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month Observed during May, Asian American,
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Risk Management in Business
No business is short on challenges in its quest to further its growth and development, particularly in its early stages. You could in fact argue that there are two sides to a ledger that businesses exist upon: on one sits the small and early-stage businesses, with the odds of long-term survival set against them, and on
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Sustainable Manufacturing: A Key Driver for Environmental Responsibility
In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, the need for environmental responsibility has reached critical proportions. Climate change, resource
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The New Diversity Approaches Corporations Desperately Need
What do companies need to do to get diversity and inclusion right?gettyby Erik ShermanUntold millions of dollars plowed into six decades of corporate diversity training and consulting have failed to transform businesses, their cultures and the makeup of executive ranks, researchers say. Multiple diversity experts who a
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Three Ways Small Businesses Should Prepare For A Second COVID Shutdown
With the COVID Delta variant on the rise and the CDC recommending mask-wearing again, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should be preparing for a possible second wave of coronavirus and possible lockdowns. This week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its guidance for fully vaccinated individuals. Cen
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What recession? Pessimism recedes for global economy in 2020.
Slowing growth and trade tensions were seen a few months ago as major threats to the global economy. The outlook has shifted notably. A nuanced optimism has crept into the stock markets and forecasts about the world economy. Where traders and economists once predicted a U. S. recession in 2020 or certainly by 2021, man