Tags Share New York City Comptroller Brad Lander shared that there is a “real opportunity to build a more inclusive economy, but we are going to have to be more courageous and more disciplined about it,” while speaking at the opening panel of the second day of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Summer…
Tags Share Investors remain firmly committed to supporting the energy transition that favors renewables and supporting the businesses that do right by doing good for the environment, panel experts agreed while speaking at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Summer Investors Conference. AP6 CEO Katarina Staaf, who joined three others on the panel, cited…
Tags Share An estimated 3,200 private venture-backed companies went out of business in 2023 across the globe, The New York Times reported late last year, stung by rising interest rates and investor demands for a more clear path to growth. However, just seven months later, the same outlet reported that investors injected $27.1 billion into…
Tags Share The Kennedy family has been a symbol of Irish American prosperity for more than 100 years. On Wednesday evening, Joseph P. Kennedy III – U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland – sought to reorient investors toward the homeland and spotlight what Northern Ireland has to offer during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights…
Tags Share More than a year into Russia’s war against Ukraine, daily bombings are commonplace. So is the Ukrainian people’s indomitable spirit. But this ongoing war must not be viewed passively, as something that’s happening far away, members of one of Tuesday’s first panels at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Summer Investors Conference…
Tags Share A more diverse business world is, at last, beginning to emerge. But to appreciate the progress and ensure it continues, it’s important to look to the past, Integrum Holdings Partner Ursula Burns says. The former Xerox CEO discussed how businesses could work toward a more just and equitable vision for women and people…
Tags Share Monday’s Compass Winter Investors Conference brought 130 attendees to Miami to learn concrete strategies about staying the course on inclusive investments and disrupting the status quo so the business world reflects a more just and equitable vision. Noting that it took nearly three years to hold the annual winter conference in person, Robert…
Tags Share Many Americans are skeptical that it’s possible to achieve both of those goals together. In a 2017 survey of people’s perceptions of profitability and overall societal contribution of 40 familiar Fortune 500 firms, participants strongly associated profit with negative societal value. That is, most people saw profit as a zero-sum game, the study’s…
Tags Share What do an Uber driver, a chief pension investment officer, and a private equity investor all have in common? A profound appreciation for security, not just for themselves, but for others. Yup S. Kim and David Gurtz, who headlined Wednesday’s keynote address at the RFK Compass Summer Investors Conference Wednesday afternoon at the…
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ three-day Compass Investors Summer Conference drew to a close Wednesday, another action-packed day, that included a fireside chat on navigating economic and political risks and featuring Saker Nusseibeh, CEO of Federated Hermes, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Affairs, Beth Van Schaack. “We face extraordinary challenges at this moment,…
Tags Share Vivienne Ming, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ newest board member, says she’s grateful to be at a place in her career where she gets to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. For fun, that is – and for free. The Socos Labs co-founder realized that, over years of work and sweat, artificial…
Tags Share Allen, a restaurant worker in Brooklyn, dreams of a day he can earn a stable wage and work in an industry no longer rife with sexual harassment, abuse, and discrimination by customers and fellow employees, he told nearly 300 attendees at the Robert F. Kennedy Compass Investors Summer Conference. That’s a goal more…
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