Shai Agassi Enters Cleantech

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As has been widely reported in the Israeli media, Shai Agassi, one of Israel’s finest hitech entrepreneurs is leaving the giant German software company SAP to join Eitan Wertheimer’s new initiative to develop battery powered electric cars. Due to Shai’s idol status on the Israeli business scene (he’s worth several hundreds of millions of dollars after selling his software company to SAP for 400 million dollars in cash), this move should create major momentum for the Israeli Cleantech industry. The question is; are we ready for it?

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Executive Level Videos on CSR

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Its not easy to convince a very busy corporate CEO or C level executive about the benefits of CSR. There are many textual heavy documents about the benefits of CSR however lately we have seen multi media take over. Here are two short movies “AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Business Responds to Climate Change” and “Energy Independence and Climate Protection: A Business Perspective” that do an excellent job to convince business executives about the advantages of combating global warming.

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Competitive Advantage Through CSR

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It’s not often you get mainstream business thought leaders talking about CSR in detail. Michael Porter, world renowned business competitive advantage expert writes a detailed paper on the “The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility“

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Shareholder Rights in Israel

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I have been searching for the most effective way to establish SRI in Israel for many years. Unfortunately there are many barriers to SRI in Israel. Probably the most significant is the lack of an awareness of Shareholder rights. Israelis are used to thinking about the stock market more as a casino and less as an economic system for allowing small investors to become capital owners. One topic which may change all that is the divest from Iran campaign Bibi Netanyahu is heading up. I congratulate him for stepping up to the plate on this issue and hope that the media will be kind enough to provide him with a podium from which to communicate with the Israeli public. The previous post is an excellent article describing Netanyahu’s campaign.

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Divest from Iran

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Laura Goldman ’s March 20th article in Globes on Netanyahu’s campaign to get America’s largest pension plans to divest from companies operating in Iran provides a great analysis of one of the most important issues in SRI to date. The article may be read at www.globes.co.il Following is the opening paragraph ”
“Since there have already been 3,468 military deaths and countless civilian fatalities in Iraq, shouldn’t we search for non-military solutions before we go to war with Iran?
Former Prime Minister Netanyahu has recently been barnstorming the United States to call on the fiduciaries of America’s largest pension plans. Netanyahu is asking the state and city treasurers to stop investing in companies that do business with Iran.”

© Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2007

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Fascinating Personal Story of Google Founders

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There’s the X Generation, the Y Generation and now the Google Generation. Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s personal story are starkly normal yet the financial success and impact they’ve had on the world is by no means normal. Here’s an excellent account of their story.

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