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INTERVIEW: Levi Strauss raises the bar on sustainability
2015-06-09 15:42:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
"We're best when we're leading and pioneering," is Michael Kobori's take on denim giant Levi Strauss & Co's responsibility in ensuring it has an ethical supply chain. But it is competition, he believes, more so than collaboration, that really raises the bar when it comes to sustainability.
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Robert Karr Raises Stake in Yelp, Reduces Google in First Quarter
2015-06-06 15:35:19| Semiconductors - Topix.net
One of Julian Robertson 's "Tiger Cubs," Robert Karr is known for an investment strategy that emphasizes a concentrated portfolio of choice companies . Karr's portfolio remains concentrated at nine stakes; he made no new buys in the first quarter and added to only three stakes, but those additions did demonstrate his continuing interest in investing in new technologies.
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How Companies Justify Big Pay Raises for CEOs
2015-06-05 10:23:38| Appliances - Topix.net
When deciding how much to pay their senior executives, the directors at Jarden Corp. - the owner of brands including Yankee Candle, Rawlings sports equipment, and Bicycle playing cards - use what might seem to be an unlikely measuring stick: the top managers at Oracle Corp., the world's largest data-base maker. Oracle is one of 14 companies Jarden identified in 2011 as a "peer"to help it gauge the going rate for executive pay - a common practice among boards when setting compensation for top managers.
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Hubbard Street Raises More Than $800,000 at Season 37 Spotlight Ball
2015-06-03 21:22:11| Agriculture - Topix.net
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, one of the world's premier contemporary dance organizations, together with Honorary Chairs Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule, and Event Chair Patti Selander Eylar, held its Season 37 Spotlight Ball on Monday, June 1 at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park. The gala event raised more than $800,000 for Hubbard Street's artistic, community-focused, education and youth programming.
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Skeleton Technologies raises 9.8 million; ramping up production of graphene-based ultracapacitors
2015-06-03 15:55:39| Green Car Congress
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