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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The number of LinkedIn posts grew 41% from 2021 to 2023. How We Got “Democracy Dies In Darkness”: And other stories from eight years running The Washington Post ( The Atlantic ) • Why We’ll Never Live in Space : Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting achen Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11 Thousands of people come to Omaha each spring for the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ meeting to hear the insights of Warren Buffett and Charles Munger, Buffett’s longtime business partner. annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Omaha is a nice weekend getaway with a number of attractions in addition to the annual meeting events.

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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures

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billion in venture funding in 2017—a healthy number but still just a small fraction of the $85 billion raised overall. She views failure due to negligence or poor ethics as totally within her control, and is comfortable with the idea of failure for other reasons. According to PitchBook, female-founded startups raised $10.5

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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures

Brown Advisory

billion in venture funding in 2017—a healthy number but still just a small fraction of the $85 billion raised overall. She views failure due to negligence or poor ethics as totally within her control, and is comfortable with the idea of failure for other reasons. According to PitchBook, female-founded startups raised $10.5

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

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Texas Cancer Registry data from 2017 reported that Black people in Jefferson County, which includes Port Arthur, had cancer rates 15% higher than average Texans, and cancer mortality rates nearly 40% higher than the state average. 8 Another study showed that one technology misidentified a number of black U.S. lawmakers for criminals.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

Texas Cancer Registry data from 2017 reported that Black people in Jefferson County, which includes Port Arthur, had cancer rates 15% higher than average Texans, and cancer mortality rates nearly 40% higher than the state average. 8 Another study showed that one technology misidentified a number of black U.S. lawmakers for criminals.

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