Talk about getting pulled in opposite directions.Welcome to torture, C-suite style. You’re a CEO in 1992 and your annoying assistant keeps bringing up something called carbon footprint, but you haven’t had a chance to check the HQ lobby carpet for it because...
Sustainability. It’s the new black and it’s all the rage. You can’t open a business publication without seeing something on Green Investment, or Environmental, Social and Governance metrics or people, planet and profit. Did you know that more than 90% of CEOs state...
Don’t get burned by the alphabet soup of financial instruments If money only makes a difference when it moves, financial instruments are the working parts, the circling water wheels that convert flowing water into energy and power, the navigational locks that regulate...
CryptoCurrency and the Weird World We Live In Money. Whatever the form, it is at the core simply a medium of exchange. For millennia, people have used some form of this medium for the conduct of transactions from everyday commerce to, more recently, complex financial...
When venture capital rains down, the smallest seed of an idea can become a beanstalk to the sky. They talk about burn rate and clawback and deal flow and exit velocity. They work in nondescript buildings, undersized companies of 10 to 20, yet capable of generating...