The company continues to target electrification, with a goal to make 50% of its mobility fleet portfolio electric by 2025 and 50% of its managed fleet portfolio electric by 2030. 2021 Merchants Fleet Slated to be BrightDrop’s First Fleet Management Customer Merchants Fleet announced plans to ...
Switzerland. The CEOs made a commitment to collaborate on the U.N.'s SDGs to benefit both the companies they run and the world. One of the compact's essential points: "Society is best served by corporations that have aligned their goals to serve...
because if they push at each other, that's how we'll find the limits. That's how we'll find healthy checks and balances," he said. "But I think we can no longer dispute that Congress, which is supposed to be providing rigorous oversight of the executive branch, ...
of portfolio firms and that this effect is stronger in CSR categories that are financially material. DesJardine and Durand (2020) find, however, that activist hedge funds have a negative impact on target firms’ CSR activities, as activists attempt to eliminate activities that they deem wasteful....
The new Nazi German occupation brought a relief from the Soviet persecutions but it had its own target: the Jews. Some of them have fled Europe (never to return), most of the rest were killed (often after a brief life in forced ghetto or a deportation to a concentration camp in German...
In 1969 the new Nixon administration was looking to cut spending and the intelligence budget was a big target. There were several new, very expensive programs being built:HEXAGON, the CIA’s school bus-sized film satellite; and a military space station: the NRO/Air ForceManned Orbiting Laborato...
According to this paper, statistics from Sun Hung Kai Financial indicate that these GGFs are projected to eclipse China’s private VC funds in size. In 2016, the fundraising target set by the government was $500 billion as opposed to the $330 billion target raised by private funds....
was also developed in 1913. Coolidge's research into tungsten had played an important role in the development of the X-ray tube. The device, which combined a vacuum with a heated tungsten filament and tungsten target, has been the foundation of virtually all X-ray tubes produced ever since,...
Now, everyone has their eyes on that growing$85 billionmobile slice of the gaming market, and game companies are starting to heavily consolidate. Major Gaming Acquisitions Since 2014 DateAcquirerTarget and SectorDeal Value (US$) Apr. 2014FacebookOculus - VR$3.0 Billion ...
First lawsuits against Trump admin target DOGE Within minutes of Trump taking the oath of office, at least three lawsuits were filed in federal court in Washington, seeking to shut down Elon Musk’s department. By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney01/20/2025, 1:14pm ...