ESG Today: Week in Review – ESG Today

Wall Street’s record-setting start to the week ran into two familiar sources of volatility: the artificial intelligence trade and oil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday closed above 53,000 for the first time ever before renewed U.S.-Iran tensions erased those gains, leaving the blue-chip index down 0.5% for the week. Chip stocks — once…

In March, Bluesky’s longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and Tumblr. Schneider, who has led the company as interim CEO for the past four months, is now dropping…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Being fired, especially more than once, can shake your confidence. Make sure you center yourself, assess your skills and market yourself accurately in future job interviews. You cannot anticipate every difficult board, cultural mismatch or biased leader. That said, you can still focus on building…

Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, speaks during a Google AI event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Earlier this year, Google AI lead Jeff Dean, on a podcast, discussed a concept that, at the time, was hardly spoken about…

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Five out of every six farms on Earth cover less than two hectares. Together, according to research published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), they produce roughly 35% of the world’s food while working just 12% of its farmland. That gap between land and output is the whole story of smallholder agriculture in one…