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Why Business Model Innovation Matters More Than Ever

“Everything that we have learned in business school for the past decades is still true. But the business model offers a new avenue for value creation.” –Christoph Zott

‘Making Money Moral’: How New Collaborations Are Changing Capitalism

Making money moral happens when the world of financial markets meets the world of impact.

The Californians Are Coming. So Is Their Housing Crisis.

Californians, fleeing high home prices, are moving to Idaho in droves. For the past several years, Idaho has been one of the fastest-growing states, with the largest share of new residents coming from California. This fact can be illustrated with census data, moving vans — or resentment.

How the Biden Administration Can Expand Rural Broadband

Part of the problem is the absence of reliable data on how many Americans lack high-speed Internet.

To Meet Climate Goals, Think Outside the Electric Car

If we are serious about curbing emissions, we must end the practice of allowing states to build new fossil-fuel-intensive highways or expansions while ignoring the backlog of maintenance needs for our deteriorating existing roads and bridges. Repair must be the first priority.

4 Trends Behind Seattle’s Booming Startup Scene

Business surged in 2020 for many of the city’s tech companies. But not everyone was so fortunate.

Dorsey e-update – Employee Handbooks (and Policies): Make Sure that the Policies and Disclaimer Accomplish their Purpose

On February 3, 2021, in Hall v. City of Plainview, A19-0606, the Minnesota Supreme Court gave something to employees and employers alike when it addressed the issue of whether a handbook policy can create a unilateral contract (as to that provision), and what impact, if any, a general disclaimer has in negating the existence of a contract based on a specific policy.

What Starlink beta testers really think about Elon Musk’s satellite internet

“Starlink will serve the hardest-to-serve customers that [telecommunications companies] otherwise have trouble reaching.”

Once we have lab-grown meat, will we still need animal advocacy?

We know most people do choose food based on taste, cost, and accessibility, not moral calculations. So if cell-cultured meat is able to compete with industrial meat on those metrics, it will likely succeed in ending factory farming without needing to engage ethics at all.

In a world of ‘remote everything,’ the State of Washington state sees new push for public broadband networks

“The last year has caused everyone to realize that high-speed broadband internet access is not some optional add-on, but a basic requirement of modern life,” Hansen said during the hearing. “We rely on the internet for remote school, remote work, remote doctors’ appointments – remote everything.”

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