2025 U.S. Governance Post-Season Review: Evolving Priorities in a Shifting Landscape

2025 U.S. Governance Post-Season Review: Evolving Priorities in a Shifting Landscape Summary The 2025 U.S. proxy season saw notable shifts in investor and corporate behaviour amid political, legal and regulatory change. Director election support generally recovered from pandemic-era troughs, with investors signalling renewed favour for traditional skills and longer tenure in some cases. Meanwhile, shareholder […]

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2025 U.S. Governance Post-Season Review: Evolving Priorities in a Shifting Landscape

2025 U.S. Governance Post-Season Review: Evolving Priorities in a Shifting Landscape Summary The 2025 U.S. proxy season saw meaningful shifts in investor and corporate behaviour as political, legal and regulatory changes reshaped priorities. Director elections recovered from a 2023 trough, with overall support rising and narrower gaps between index cohorts. Boards tilted back toward traditional […]

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Beyond Smartphones: How Neuralink Could Rewrite the Future of Communication

Beyond Smartphones: How Neuralink Could Rewrite the Future of Communication Summary Neuralink’s Link is a coin-sized brain implant with thousands of ultra-thin electrodes that read and transmit neural activity. The device aims to turn thought into digital commands, allowing control of cursors, prosthetics and other devices, and — in the long term — enabling direct […]

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Product Positioning and Incentives to Innovate

Product Positioning and Incentives to Innovate Summary This paper shows that where a firm positions its product in the characteristic (product) space matters for its incentive to invest in cost‑reducing R&D — and that this effect is distinct from firm size, sales or preinnovation profits. Using a three‑firm Hotelling model (one firm at the centre, […]

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PM Gati Shakti Marks Four Years: Driving India’s Integrated and Sustainable Infrastructure Growth

PM Gati Shakti Marks Four Years: Driving India’s Integrated and Sustainable Infrastructure Growth Summary The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) marked four years of PM Gati Shakti at an event in Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. What began in 2021 as a National Master Plan for Multimodal Connectivity and a digital planning […]

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The carbon pricing storm hits global shipping as the U.S. threatens sanctions over a new tax.

The carbon pricing storm hits global shipping as the U.S. threatens sanctions over a new tax. Summary The global shipping sector is being hit by accelerating carbon-pricing measures that are shifting emissions from policy debate into tangible costs. From 2025 the EU will include maritime transport in its Emissions Trading System (ETS), adding more than […]

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Reputation in International Trade: Evidence From the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Reputation in International Trade: Evidence From the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Summary This paper examines how the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster affected Japan’s food exports to the European Union and whether reputational damage over food safety played a role. Using detailed HS6 bilateral trade data (BACI and Comtrade), prefecture-level production statistics and records of testing/export restrictions, […]

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Bengaluru Gears Up for Intralogistics & Warehousing Expo 2025 Amid Rapid Infrastructure Growth

Bengaluru Gears Up for Intralogistics & Warehousing Expo 2025 Amid Rapid Infrastructure Growth Summary Bengaluru is seeing a surge in logistics-ready infrastructure — from air logistics gateways to metro lines and futuristic projects like Quantum City — and that momentum is feeding demand for warehousing and intralogistics solutions. The Intralogistics & Warehousing Expo 2025 (6–8 […]

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