Description: The abacá plant grows without needing lots of water or pesticides, helps stop erosion, and is now being used to replace fossil fuels in clothes.
Source: FastCompany.com
Date: Apr 12, 2019
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Description: The push for more effective ad targeting remains one of marketers’ chief priorities, evidenced by two reports released this year.
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: Apr 11, 2019
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Description: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal don’t even make it into Canada’s 10 most entrepreneurial cities’ list
Source: FinancialPost.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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Description: A finance professional turned entrepreneur reflects on the motherhood bias and stereotypes she faced during her return to work
Source: FastCompany.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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Description: Americans may start to become more ‘social’ in the way they shop for homes, one analyst thinks
Source: MarketWatch.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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Description: New York (CNN Business)General Electric is a tiny player in the booming offshore wind market. But that will change soon — and it needs to, if the company wants to outgrow its exposure to fossil fuels. One major investment that illustrates GE’s interest: The Haliade-X, the world’s largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Apr 02, 2019
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/investing/ge-offshore-wind-renewable-energy/index.html
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Description: When it comes to shopping, social media seems to have somewhat limited influence on parents’ purchasing behavior—but they’ll use it (and other online resources) for researching.
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
Link: https://www.emarketer.com/content/social-recommendations-influence-one-in-three-mothers-to-buy
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Description: From rental furniture to modular couches, the company is finding more and more ways to limit its use of raw materials.
Source: FastCompany.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90328244/inside-ikeas-plan-to-reinvent-itself-as-a-circular-company
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Description: Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Apr 02, 2019
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Description: Kenneth Jull, counsel at Gardiner Roberts, talks about the different paths SNC-Lavalin may face with a remediation agreement. He say that there is a right and a wrong way to handle this, but Canadians need to understand the consequences of each.
Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report
Date: Mar 28, 2019
Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/snc-lavalin-needs-to-be-held-criminally-liable-lawyer~1646690
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