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Valdai Discussion Club

The Future of BRICS Countries in a Multipolar World: Humanitarian and Long-Term Dimensions

It is important that efforts be made in a more tangible and practical way to bolster our common humanity should we seek a shared destiny. Drawing upon the uneven distribution of knowledge competences, it could prove useful for the BRICS+ to utilise their capacities and capabilities in science and technology…

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15 July 2024
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McKinsey & Company

Embedded finance: How banks and customer platforms are converging

Revenues from embedded finance (EF)—the delivery of financial products by nonfinancial entities within their broader offerings—could surpass €100 billion in Europe by the end of the decade, according to McKinsey forecasts. The distribution of financial products and services, such as loans and insurance, in third-party channels is gaining importance as…

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University of Cambridge

AI Chatbots have shown they have an ‘empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss

When not designed with children’s needs in mind, Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have an “empathy gap” that puts young users at particular risk of distress or harm, according to a study.The research, by a University of Cambridge academic, Dr Nomisha Kurian, urges developers and policy actors to make “child-safe AI”…

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15 July 2024
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Stanford University

A new approach to the growing problem of water affordability

Rising water prices are forcing many households in the United States to choose between rationing water or risking shutoff by leaving bills unpaid. A new study in Environmental Research Letters shows government agencies and water utilities may be underestimating the true number of households at risk of losing affordable access…

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15 July 2024
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MIT Sloan – Management Review

Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability

Topics Social Responsibility Sustainability Dan Page/theispot.com Leaders can’t escape the global imperative to reduce the contributions businesses make to environmental degradation, but deep down, many harbor doubts: Can a profit-driven organization also be sustainable? Pressure to grow revenue and control costs is constant. How can a leader feel confident in…

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15 July 2024
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The Fry Group - UK

10 financial planning checks for unmarried couples

Protecting your financial position when you’re unmarried may be slightly more complicated. But with some careful checks you and your partner can take steps to ensure you’re not financially disadvantaged. Ed Read Cutting, our Director in Belgium, looks at the key areas to consider. More couples today are co-habiting or…

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15 July 2024
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The Fry Group - UK

Can a family heirloom reduce Inheritance Tax?

Inheritance Tax is one of the most punishing elements in the UK tax system, and many families are keen to do everything they can to reduce or eliminate it. One of the options available is to use a family heirloom to offset an Inheritance Tax bill. Steve Wright, our Estates…

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15 July 2024
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McKinsey & Company

Aiming higher: Embedding ‘systematic ambition’ to drive UK corporate growth

Only 36 percent of the 500 largest companies in the United Kingdom are publicly listed, a marked shift that has been under way for many years, so a thorough understanding of today’s UK corporate landscape requires looking beyond the “UK plc”. Our research, which goes beyond publicly listed companies to…

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15 July 2024
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INSEAD Knowledge

Three Lessons from Tech Layoffs on Building Career Agility

The wave of layoffs in Silicon Valley in the past two years is far from over. After a brutal 2023 that saw over 100,000 tech workers laid off in the United States, 2024 shows no signs of letting up.While the headlines are shocking, the human stories behind the numbers are just as…

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15 July 2024
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Valcon

Five ‘go live’ management lessons

The run up to hitting the deadline for go live can be stressful. Pressure from stakeholders, concerns about the budget or worries the project team will lose face are all key concerns. You might be launching a new product, pressing the green light on a new system or introducing a…

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Skarbek Associates

Quality As Designed

The key to sustained growth relies on an ability to innovate reliably and sustainably. At Skarbek, we are embarking on a journey to unravel the mystery behind what makes the best excel at this. Leveraging our experts’ vast experience and highlighting attributes from our Innovation Fitness Index, we aim to…

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14 July 2024
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

UPDATE: Texas Judge Swiftly Denies Plaintiffs’ Request to Expand Scope of Injunction in FTC Non-Compete Ban Case

In a rapid-fire response, the Ryan Court in the Northern District of Texas this morning denied Plaintiff and Plaintiff-Intervenors’ Expedited Motion for Limited Reconsideration of the Scope of Preliminary Relief, and Plaintiff and Plaintiff-Intervenors’ Motion for Expedited Consideration of their Motion for Limited Reconsideration of the Scope of Preliminary Relief…

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13 July 2024
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Ogletree Deakins

Arizona’s Minimum Wage: Contrasting Ballot Measures Could Impact State Pay Rates

Quick Hits An advocacy organization recently submitted signatures to put forth a ballot measure to raise the state minimum wage to $18 per hour. Arizona voters will decide a separate ballot measure to alter way the minimum wage is calculated for tipped workers. If passed by voters, both measures would…

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13 July 2024
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University of Cambridge

Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease

The team say this new approach could reduce the need for invasive and costly diagnostic tests while improving treatment outcomes early when interventions such as lifestyle changes or new medicines may have a chance to work best.Dementia poses a significant global healthcare challenge, affecting over 55 million people worldwide at…

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13 July 2024
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Yale School of Management

The Perils of Personalized Pricing

Fixed prices for goods and services is a relatively recent invention. In the 19th century, Quaker merchants argued that haggling was morally wrong—it was unfair for two customers buying the same good to walk away having paid different amounts. John Wanamaker, a Quaker and the founder of Philadelphia’s Wanamaker’s department…

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12 July 2024
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McKinsey & Company

Connecting strategy, finance, and personal development: A conversation with Marjorie Lao

The CFO is a company’s “connector in chief.” No one else in the organization is more important for ensuring that strategy, financial controls, stakeholder management, technology, and personal development link together for value creation. Marjorie Lao, who served as the CFO of the LEGO Group—and before that, as CFO of…

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12 July 2024
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Microsoft

Taiwan hospital deploys AI copilot to lighten workloads for doctors, nurses and pharmacists

TAINAN, Taiwan – It’s a typically busy afternoon at Chi Mei Medical Center’s pharmacy department in this southern Taiwanese city. Staff in white coats work quickly, packing bottles and tablet strips, ready for the lines of patients waiting on the other side of the counter.    Since April, the pharmacists have…

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12 July 2024
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Valcon

The business wants it all and they want it now

How does being in a state of constant change affect how organisations manage their portfolios of projects and programmes so they align to business goals and meet strategic objectives? Steve Clark, Head of UK Project Delivery, Valcon discusses. Technological advancement, business imperatives, regulatory diktats – the pressure on organisations to transform themselves…

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12 July 2024
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Civility Partners

3 Reasons Your Hiring Process is Too Lengthy and How to Fix it

Hiring the right person is essential, but a drawn-out hiring process can harm your organization more than you might realize. Missed opportunities, decreased productivity, and losing top candidates to competitors are just a few of the costly consequences. While being thorough in interviews is important, taking too long can be…

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12 July 2024
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Valdai Discussion Club

Russia’s Food Assistance to Africa and the Situation on the Global Grain Market

Having chosen The Formation of New Centres of Growth as the Cornerstone of a Multipolar World as its main theme for 2024, the St Petersburg International Economic Forum featured discussions on a wide range of international development matters. The western sanctions against Russia placed food security among the challenges the…

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12 July 2024
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MIT Sloan – Management Review

Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes

Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series subscribe-icon Subscribe Share Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images The proverbial ship of artificial intelligence is moving ahead at warp speed, icebergs and societal risks be damned. The pace…

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12 July 2024
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Microsoft

Enlist AI in your fight against email overload

Consider this: according to our 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report, email overload remains a persistent issue for Microsoft 365 users—85 percent of emails are read in under 15 seconds, and the typical person reads four emails for every one they send. But users can’t simply declare email bankruptcy. For…

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12 July 2024
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Bird & Bird | Brand Writes

Name Protection Rights: Toto, more than a stage name

By PI order of December 27, 2023, the IP Specialized Division of the Court of Rome provided some interesting remarks regarding the legitimacy of name protection rights when using a third-party stage name as a company name, insignia, and de facto trade mark. In particular, the Court has ordered an…

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11 July 2024
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Stanford University

A low-tech, inexpensive way to convince politicians to debate

Debates can play an important role in democratic elections. They educate voters and give politicians a chance to set themselves apart from their opponents. Yet it’s not always easy to get candidates to agree to face off with each other. That poses a problem in countries like Sierra Leone, where…

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11 July 2024
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Valdai Discussion Club

The Results of Foreign Policy Season: A Multipolar Whirlpool

On July 10, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “Russia in the World: Results of the Foreign Policy Season 2023-2024”. Moderator Ivan Timofeev called this season quite eventful. He highlighted the emergence of the concept of a Eurasian security structure in Russian foreign policy philosophy, the expansion…

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Valdai Discussion Club

Bends in the East: Russian Policy in Asia Becomes More Flexible

It is now most promising for Russia in Asia to focus on dialogue with individual countries in the region, taking into account the interests of each of them and its own. But strengthening relations at the country level is a matter of painstaking work by diplomats and business, of little…

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11 July 2024
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McKinsey & Company

Helping boards manage geopolitical risk with Jon Huntsman Jr.

Assisting management in navigating today’s geopolitical complexity has become one of boards’ most important and difficult tasks. In this episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast, Ziad Haider, Celia Huber, and Jon Huntsman Jr. discuss how boards can address this challenge. Huntsman spent nearly two decades in US public service…

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University of Cambridge

Cambridge experts bust myths about family, sex, marriage and work in English history

Sex before marriage was unusual in the past – Myth! In some periods, over half of all brides were already pregnant when they got married.The rich have always outlived the poor –Myth! Before the 20th century the evidence for a survival advantage of wealth is mixed. In England, babies of agricultural labourers…

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11 July 2024
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MIT Sloan – Management Review

Don’t Sacrifice Employee Upskilling for Productivity

Intense monitoring of individual output doesn’t lead to more productive employees and can limit workers’ professional growth. Stacia Garr and Priyanka Mehrotra July 10, 2024 Reading Time: 4 min  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Reports that U.S. productivity was up 3% in the fourth quarter of 2023 were seen…

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McKinsey & Company

In the long run: What leaders can learn from an Olympic gold medalist

Alistair Brownlee, two-time Olympic gold medalist, four-time triathlon world champion, three-time Ironman winner, and bestselling author, isn’t one to shy away from making a mantra his own: “If you want to achieve something no one has achieved before, you have to approach the challenge in a way no one has…

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10 July 2024
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Yale School of Management

Should the Federal Reserve Reveal More about Its Stress Test Models?

Since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09, the Federal Reserve has conducted stress tests of the largest banks to evaluate their capital and promote sound risk management, under a mandate Congress created in the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. On June 26, a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held…

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10 July 2024
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Gowling WLG

Brand protection in sport

Welcome to the latest episode of Gowling WLG's listen up podcast, where we look at a range of topics trending in the legal and commercial landscapes.  Khemi Salhan: Welcome to our podcast on brand protection and sport. This podcast is part of our sports sector podcast series. I'm Khemi Salhan, a…

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10 July 2024
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European Central Bank - Publications

The geopolitics of green minerals

10 July 2024By Jakob Feveile Adolfsen, Danielle Kedan and Marie-Sophie LappeThe green transition will significantly increase demand for key minerals over the coming decades. The impact on energy prices will ultimately depend on how supply adjusts. The ECB Blog looks at the geopolitical risks involved. The green transition relies on…

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Valdai Discussion Club

UK: Labour Returns to Power

The results of the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2024, were not something unexpected, writes Konstantin Khudoley, head of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University. For many decades, the UK political system has worked like a pendulum,…

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10 July 2024
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Valdai Discussion Club

Russia and India on the Eve of a Multipolar World

On July 9, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion about the results of the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Russia. Moderator Ivan Timofeev emphasised that this was the first international visit of the Indian leader since he was re-elected. There have been no direct Russian-Indian…

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Microsoft

Get the most out of any Teams Rooms meeting with speaker recognition and Copilot

AI-powered speaker recognition technology has now expanded to all Teams Rooms on Windows devices, regardless of the microphone type. This was previously only available with intelligent speaker equipment in the room. Now any Teams Room on Windows can enhance meeting experiences with precise speaker attribution and intelligent insights from Copilot.…

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10 July 2024
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HBS Working Knowledge

Chance Encounters: What’s at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the conversation that followed the…

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10 July 2024
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Ogletree Deakins

Louisiana Amends LWPA to Address Commissions, Incentive Payment Plans, and Bonuses to Give Greater Flexibility to Employers

Quick Hits Louisiana’s Act No. 556 allows employers to establish policies concerning when an employee earns a commission, incentive payment, or bonus. Examples include adjusting such compensation where the employer does not receive payment from a customer and adjusting commissions when there is a change order. Act No. 556 extends…

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9 July 2024
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HBS Working Knowledge

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

In an AI-world, leaders who speak technology’s language gain an edge. But that doesn’t mean every manager needs a computer science degree.A handle on a handful of basics goes a long way toward preparing strategic leaders for today’s reality: Almost all businesses now touch technology—some more so than others. “Every…

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Black Swan Financial Planning - UK

What a Labour government could mean for your finances

In a decisive and historic victory, the Labour Party won the 2024 UK general election with a significant majority and Keir Starmer has become the UK prime minister after 14 years of Conservative government. The new chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has already pledged to “fix the foundations” of the British economy…

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9 July 2024
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