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    What can businesses learn from crisis management in the digital age?

    Crisis management goes beyond communications. Recent events highlight how digital technology can both strengthen and hinder any recuperation efforts.

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    Here’s one example of how Big Data helps transportation in our region

    Waze helps us navigate traffic and save precious time. In partnership with the IDB Group, it’s also helping to measure the impact of transport projects and solve related challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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    3 Myths about Public Private Partnerships

    People newly engaged with PPPs often hold strong beliefs about them. Some of them are just plain wrong.

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    Think Sustainable Network: Sustainable Finances and Investment for Change

    Sustainable finances and investments incorporate issues of governance, the environment and social reality when long-term decisions are made. However, in order for sustainable thinking to spread like wildfire over the financial markets and for companies to base their long-term measures on sustainability, it is essential for decision-makers – senior executives – to be committed to this trend based on an understanding of the financial instruments they can use and the challenges they will face when incorporating this line of work in their companies.

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    Millennials and Shared Value: a perfect business strategy

    Much has been said about the millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000, accounting for approximately 80 million people in the United States, and what they represent for the future of our society.  For businesses, for example, it is crucial to understand this new generation, both as consumers and employees, otherwise companies run the risk of becoming irrelevant and antiquated.  A recent Deloitte Survey shows that companies will need to change the way they do business in order to accommodate this new generation. Millennials do not begrudge businesses making a profit, but they also believe that businesses should have a purpose: being a catalyst in making a lasting, positive impact on society.

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    STEM minus Women = Private Sector Problem

    By Kristin Dacey & Sanola Daley* Math and Science are for Men Women are not smart enough to be engineers. Women are not good at math. Isn’t this why globally men earn 70% of doctoral degrees in mathematics and the world rejoiced recently that a woman – Maryam Mirzakhani –won the top prize in mathematics for the first time?

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