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Hedge Fund, Meet Highway

Strategy+Business

This unlikely partnership is changing the way the world finances its cities, power systems, and transportation links. Since the financial crisis, asset management companies -- including some private equity firms and hedge funds -- have become the backers of choice for huge, multiyear infrastructure projects.

Meeting 31
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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Figure 1 : Innovations from NASA will help the US meet its sustainable aviation goals. The US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently pledged that America will achieve carbon neutrality for its aviation sector by 2050. The funds from these credits go towards financing various sustainability projects. Policy Incentives.

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Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?

Harvard Business

And right now, crop yields — the amount of crops harvested per unit of land cultivated — are growing too slowly to meet the forecasted demand for food. Advanced logistics, transportation, storage, and processing are also crucial for making sure that food goes from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn’t.

Meeting 28
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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

If borders close and quarantines are imposed, trucks, truck drivers, and the goods they carry don’t get transported. Several prominent individuals in the venture capital, startup, and finance communities did the same thing. I was supposed to be meeting 15,000 trade show attendees from around the world.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business

Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR. Prior to visit, coordinated all documentation, including collecting relevant data.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. To complement the city’s existing transit network, Berlin’s public transportation provider is piloting its own ride-sharing van service through a public-private partnership.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines.