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Navigating Impact Investing: The Need for Greater Clarity and Efficiency
Demand for impact investing is surging - yet investors, even interested ones, have a hard time wrapping their heads around the practice.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, research
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Improving Photosynthesis May Be Our Best Bet to Feed More People
Our ability to keep feeding Earth's growing population using current agricultural methods is hitting its limit. So researchers are looking to alter plants' most basic systems.
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- Agriculture
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- food security, research
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M.B.A.s Get Lessons in Income Inequality
With the gap between the highest and lowest-income Americans at its widest level in decades, some business schools are putting income inequality on the syllabus.
The b-schools at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Northwestern University are adding new courses and investing in research that probes income inequality at home and abroad. Some of the new courses consider remedies for inequality, while others focus on helping students market to consumers at the bottom of the wealth pyramid. As M.B.A.s aspire to become top earners, schools say they must understand the forces that affect people at every income level.- Categories
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- North America
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PRESS RELEASE: New White Paper – Investing for Positive Impact on Women
A group of investors has released a new white paper, Investing for Positive Impact on Women: Integrating Gender into Total Portfolio Activation. The paper was prepared by Croatan Institute with the guidance and close collaboration of Global Fund for Women, Root Capital, Thirty Percent Coalition, and Trillium Asset Management.
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- Investing
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Neglected No More
Dr. BT Slingsby, founder and CEO of the Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) fund, is passionate about using Japanese research knowhow to help tackle the most challenging public health issues of the day.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Exxon’s Climate Cover-Up Should Be Investigated By DOJ, Tobacco Prosecutor Says
A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who prosecuted and won the massive racketeering case against Big Tobacco thinks the agency should consider investigating Big Oil for similar claims: engaging in a cover-up to mislead the public about the risks of its product.
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- Education, Environment
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Wellcome’s £5 Billion Boost to British Science
A month out from the November spending review, Britain’s scientists are braced for bad news. Rumours continue to swirl about another five years of flat budgets,a likely merger of research councils, and the culling of other funding bodies. Next Monday, the pressure group Science is Vital is hosting a rally at Conway Hall in London where prominent voices from across the research community will spell out the case for public investment.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- research
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A Ugandan Scientist Found a Way to Detect Ebola in 5 Minutes but Couldn’t Get Funding
A Ugandan scientist has developed a rapid diagnostic test that can detect Ebola proteins in less than five minutes at the point of care in the community. This is the first rapid diagnostic test that is able to detect various strains of the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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