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The business advantages of scale and scope are widely recognized, but large, global enterprises often fail to fully realize them when it comes to innovation.Innovations that are developed in one geographic region or business unit - new products to delight customers, new HR policies to attract and retain talent, new production processes that drive efficiency gains - too often stay within them instead of being disseminated across the enterprise.

Older people are being urged to check whether they are eligible for Pension Credit as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) joins forces with charities and broadcasters to raise awareness of a scheme worth as much as 3,500 a year per person.Nearly 1.4 million people in Britain of state pension age and on a low income already receive the state payout to help with their daily living costs but more than 800,000 more could be missing out, according to MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis, meaning that approximately 1.7bn in help is going unclaimed every year.

Ukraine's largest oil and gas producing company hopes to end the country's reliance on petroleum imports and wants Canadian businesses to pitch in.Ukrnafta executive vice-president Denys Kudin is in Canada this week in between stops in Vienna, Washington D.C. and Houston, courting investors willing to help the country rejuvenate its mature oil fields.

Auto industry analysts say Canada paid a big price to bring Volkswagen's first North American electric vehicle (EV) battery plant to St Thomas, Ont., but whether that money will deliver lasting benefit to the economy is a matter of debate.On Wednesday, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux released a report detailing his calculations.

In just three weeks, new federal regulations will begin slapping surcharges on the most polluting fuels in a bid to rein in transportation emissions.Eventually, those Clean Fuel Regulations will make gasoline more expensive.The federal Conservatives and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation have taken to calling them "carbon tax 2.0" or "the second carbon tax."

In Atlanta, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp stands next to a Rivian electric truck while announcing the company's plans to build a plant east of Atlanta, Dec. 16, 2021.Hyundai and Kia will also soon make electric vehicles in Georgia.John Bazemore/AP TALLULAH FALLS, Ga.A short hike from the 200-foot suspension bridge that swings across Tallulah Gorge in the north Georgia mountains, Gov. Brian Kemp plugs a long charging cord into a forest green Rivian electric pickup truck.

CLIMATEWIRE | Conservatives are leveraging a new argument against ESG: It's hurting poor families.Energy analysts say the criticism lacks any supporting evidence.But it builds on Republicans' intensifying opposition to environmental, social and governance investing, which refers to the practice of considering risks like climate change when making financial decisions.

Trent Brown has finally made his minicamp debut.The New England Patriots ' behemoth left tackle, who started 16 games last season, took the field alongside his teammates for the second practice of mandatory minicamp on Tuesday.Brown had missed the previous day's session after his flight into town got canceled due to a hail storm, as reported by Mark Daniels of MassLive.

An effort to resolve a dispute over the future of Israel's judiciary, an issue that has divided the country for months, suffered a major blow Wednesday after a dramatic showdown in Parliament over a committee that picks the nation's judges.Opposition leaders said they were withdrawing from negotiations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government, pausing talks, for at least a month, aimed at reaching a compromise over a contentious plan to overhaul the judicial system.

The average member of the 1 percent would save $16,550 under the plan.A person in the bottom 20 percent would save $40.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters as he walks to the floor of the House Chambers at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 6, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images After spending months threatening to tank the economy over the federal deficit, Republicans have unveiled a set of new tax proposals that would cost the government billions of dollars - by handing tens of billions of dollars of tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of Americans, as a new report reveals.

Sandeep Mathrani was supposed to be WeWork's savior.A real estate executive, he became the chief executive of the troubled office space company in 2020 after a failed initial public offering pushed it to the brink of collapse.He instilled discipline and order on a business that had grown fast and chaotically under its co-founder Adam Neumann.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith speaks during a meeting of the House Rules Committee to consider at the U.S. Capitol on May 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer / Getty Images After threatening to force the government into default over the debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers Friday introduced new tax cuts that could add at least $21 billion to the national deficit over the next decade.

Few countries in the Western Hemisphere have evoked for Americans the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine as much as has Cuba.For years, the Soviets used the island nation 103 miles off the coast of Florida as a listening post, and, in 1962, they brought the world to the brink of existential conflict by secretly placing nuclear ballistic missiles on the island.

The most confounding thing about a Lion Electric school bus is that it's so simple.Workers start with a few steel beams, a couple of dozen fiberglass panels around a metal body shell, and an electric motor that has 20 parts and is as big as a picnic basket.Diesel engines for large trucks, in contrast, have 2,000 parts.

Power outages are leaving Vietnamese homes and businesses without power for hours at a time, as a prolonged drought and high temperatures strain the fast-growing economy's capacity to keep up.A long-anticipated plan meant to fix the energy crunch and help achieve ambitious climate change goals will offer some relief but may not go far enough in weaning the country off of fossil fuels, experts say.

Image Julie Sweet, Accenture's chief executive, said the consulting firm plans to double its A.I.-focused staff.Credit...F.Carter Smith/Bloomberg As the corporate world reckons with the impact that artificial intelligence may have on, well, everything, the consulting firm Accenture announced on Tuesday that it will invest $3 billion in the technology over the next three years.

Atlanta-based Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) has decided to focus its investments on the wholesale channel amid the most challenging mortgage market in decades.This has resulted in the company closing branches and laying off loan officers on the retail side.Wholesale is growing.It's a shift that is happening in the market.

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California Transportation Commission staff have released their recommendations for the third funding cycle for programs established by Senate Bill 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.The recommendations include $1.7 billion for investments in three programs: Solutions for Congested Corridors, Trade Corridors Enhancement, and Local Partnership programs.

OnAudience, one of the world's largest audience data providers, has today (June 12th, 2023) announced a strategic partnership with FirstPartyCapital (FPC), an early-stage venture capital firm specialising in ad tech, martech, and digital media.As part of FPC's growing investment group, the investment will provide OnAudience with access to innovative companies at the forefront of advertising and marketing technology.

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