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    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
      FT SeriesThe electric vehicle revolution
      Pick-up trucks and climate politics: will American drivers go electric?

      A battery-powered version of Ford’s most iconic vehicle will test the US appetite for more environmentally friendly cars

    • Friday, 20 August, 2021
      The Top LineSujeet Indap
      Crunch time at PepsiCo for a friend of the workers

      Darren Walker lent his prestige to the food and beverage group. Can he achieve enough in return?

      Darren Walker, pictured in 2017
    • Friday, 12 June, 2020
      Philanthropy
      US foundations issue first social bonds to fund $1.7bn coronavirus fightback

      Underwriters report ‘insatiable appetite’ for debt backed by donor organisations

      Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. The foundation is seeking to raise $1bn in 30 and 50-year social bonds
    • Monday, 21 October, 2019
      Special ReportResponsible Business Education Awards
      Are academics lagging in debate on the future of business?

      Researchers urged to lead drive to make capitalism more sustainable and inclusive

      y NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business at the School. The images include Tensie Whelan, the Center's founding director.
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      Impact investing for good and market returns

      Charity is now about trying to harness capitalism and capital markets to promote change

      NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 02: Ford Foundation president Darren Walker on stage during the LDF 31th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 2, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.)
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      Ambassador laments ‘potentially chilling effects’ of official curbs

      Indian policemen look on as a Greenpeace activist blocks the entry to the residence of Delhi's Power Minister Haroon Yusuf with a bank of solar panels in New Delhi on May 15, 2013. Greenpeace activists demanded that Delhi Government should take steps to improve its performance on the use of renewable source of energy to deal with capital's power crisis. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash SINGH
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      Western donors alarmed as US philanthropy group placed on watchlist over ties to anti-Modi activist

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      Work & Careers
      Names and dignity for the desert’s dead

      Robin Reineke helps identify migrants who perished while crossing the US border

      Robin Reineke, Doctoral Candidate at The School of Anthropology University of Arizona, and co-founder of Calibri Center for Human Rights, in the Sonoran desert, Tucson, AZ, May 13, 2014. Reineke speicalizes in identifying human remains on the US-Mexico border through comprehensive forensic research and reliable data on missing persons.
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      Global Economy
      Foundations pledge $330m to save Detroit’s art from bankruptcy sale
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      Urban planning
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      Tech blogRobert Cookson
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      POTSDAM, GERMANY - OCTOBER 3:  Britain's Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web and then gave it away, smiles after he plants a cherry tree October 3, 2005 in the gardens under Sans Souci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. The planting was an initiative of the society "Workshop Germany" and energy company Vattenfall, who sponsor the Quadriga Awards for outstanding contributions to society and world politics and which will take place later today in Berlin.  (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
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      Facebook IPO offers parallels with Ford’s in 1956
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      A beacon of US power and ambition

      Oliver Zunz has written a new history that charts the constant evolution in the ways American citizens give to good causes

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      World
      Overview: Fashion for giving starts to catch on

      The lack of a charitable tradition fosters entrepreneurialism in the non-profit sector

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      World
      Foundations: Increasing wealth helps boost business engagement

      Companies can be more flexible than governments and NGOs, writes Vivianne Rodrigues

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2011
      ReviewBusiness education
      Chronicle of a quiet revolution in business schools

      The financial crisis has triggered a self-examination of the raison d’être of business schools

    • Friday, 22 April, 2011
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      The secret life of the start-up

      The highest rate of entrepreneurship in the US is actually found in Montana and Oklahoma

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      FT AlphavilleGwen Robinson
      Veteran Citi directors to go in shake-up
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      World
      Why Ford was the right man for the moment
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      Global Economy
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