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HubSpot’s Yamini Rangan on the challenges of sudden power

In the past two years, Yamini Rangan, chief executive of software company HubSpot, has faced more upheaval and been forced to draw on a wider range of management techniques than many bosses face in a lifetime. But nothing quite compared to the moment in March when Brian Halligan, 54, the company’s founder and, at the…
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19 December 2021 0

Italy’s wind turbine refuseniks given blunt message

Roberto Cingolani has a blunt message for Italians opposed to new wind turbines or solar farms in their local area. “The alternative is you get rid of your car, no air con, no mobile phone, no internet at all,” Italy’s minister for energy transition told the FT in an interview. “Citizens have to understand this.”…
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19 December 2021 0

Carbon counter: celebrate sustainably with well-chosen gifts

Dreaming of a green Christmas? Lex tapped its inner Grinch to calculate the carbon cost of a household’s celebrations, basing its figures on UK average spending patterns. Badly-chosen presents accounted for as much as two-thirds of the festive season’s footprint. This idea derives from “Scroogenomics”, the brainchild of economist Joel Waldfogel who calculated that between 10 per…
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18 December 2021 0

Breton accuses US commerce secretary of campaigning for Big Tech

Brussels has complained that a senior US official is campaigning on behalf of Big Tech, days after the EU approved a common position on draft rules aimed at curbing the power of large American tech companies, fuelling a transatlantic tit-for-tat among senior officials. Thierry Breton, the EU internal markets commissioner, accused US commerce secretary Gina…
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