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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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Jamie Fiore Higgins worked on Wall Street for nearly 20 years—from 1998 to 2016—and by the end of her career, she’d amassed a small fortune. By 2016, she was making 40 times more than her house cleaner and 10 times more than her doctor. I want my four kids to have their own sense of agency. You are the CEO of your own career.

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Don’t Be Adidas: Making Better Decisions Fast Is Important For Business Leadership

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Even Ye’s own talent agency dropped him before Adidas. Presumably, the impact will be much higher in 2023, over half a billion at least. . In 2016, Adidas further expanded its relationship with the rapper, calling it “the most significant partnership ever created between a non-athlete and an athletic brand.” .

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. She recently won the 2023 Waterfront Award for Science and Technology and was recognized as one of White Page International’s Top 100 Asian Women Power Leaders.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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It made history in 2023 with the first consumer sale of cultivated meat, which required approval from the Food and Drug Administration. 29 is one of the first PR agencies entirely dedicated to sustainability and social impact, with a client list that includes VEJA, TED, Rothy’s, Happiest Baby, Book of the Month and more.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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In 2016, he co-created the Warmest Winter project, which created coats that doubled as sleeping bags for the homeless. And being in control of that—being able to decide when I want to take that on, what my budget is for my song, my video or my album art—is an autonomy and agency that I would never want to give up.”

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris has projected that emissions will reach a new all-time high in 2023. From 2016 to 2019, the world saw record-breaking heat waves, wildfires and tropical cyclones. Global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled 59.1 This story originally appeared in Yale Climate Connections. .

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