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Remote Work And Rising Interest Rates Are Changing The Landscape Of Commercial Real Estate

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Commercial real estate in America is financed through various channels, including commercial banks and private lenders. Consequently, they are exhibiting reluctance in engaging in lending activities, and this is having an impact on people’s ability to finance and grow commercial real estate.

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5 Tips for Aspiring Female Venture Capitalists

Success

She says it’s not uncommon to be mistaken for somebody’s assistant or an intern at conferences—people have asked her to get them coffee. Kimmel has faced her fair share of criticism on her ascent to founding Worklife. And yet, her numbers speak for themselves. million, returning the fund in less than four years in business. “I

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Mirela Sula Is On a Mission to Empower Women Through the Global Woman Club

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In her outreach work, she realized one of the biggest barriers to leaving an abuser is limited or total lack of access to money , since perpetrators of abuse often control their partners’ finances. So, in 2015, she founded the Global Woman Summit, an international conference where women can network and empower each other.

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Seven industry associations join forces to develop real estate carbon pricing strategy

Workplace Insight

While an important tool to help build the business case for low carbon solutions, a recent ULI C Change survey demonstrated that internal carbon pricing is still a ‘minority activity’ in the built environment. Lack of knowledge and consistent data, including financial and educational, were identified as the main barriers to implementation.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Kim Carson CEO, Founder, Parallax Futures With more than 15 years of leadership experience in research, operations, strategy, finance and business development, Carson’s track record stands out for clients. Burgess is also a songwriter with work available on Spotify and iTunes.

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For all its flaws, COP28 still gives us a route to a greener future

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In the quest for sustainable urban development, the global community is making significant inroads through international collaborations and agreements. Incredibly this is first time such an agreement has been reached in 28 years of international climate negotiations, surely a cause for celebration.

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UNESCO study reveals evidence of regressive stereotypes in LLMs

Workplace Insight

To coincide with International Women’s Day, a UNESCO study revealed worrying tendencies in Large Language models (LLM) to produce gender bias, as well as homophobia and racial stereotyping. Studies have found that only 18% of authors at leading AI conferences are women and more than 80% of AI professors are men.

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