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How transparency and traceability are reinventing the future of business

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EON, a winner of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas award in the beauty and fashion category, helps luxury brands such Chloé deploy digital identification technology, giving clients access to an item’s origin, repair, and cleaning information. Consumers can benefit from such added levels of detail and transparency.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Most Innovative Company in Food 1. UPSIDE Foods Photo courtesy of UPSIDE Foods Who they are: UPSIDE Foods is on the leading edge of animal cell-cultivated meat. It made history in 2023 with the first consumer sale of cultivated meat, which required approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

Work Life

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. Between the low pay and limited benefits, home care agencies have struggled to retain workers, especially as fast food and retail jobs have grown more appealing due to minimum wage increases.

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The Most Expensive Habit You’re Ignoring

Eat Your Career

Yesterday, I realized that my refrigerator was full of condiments but empty of real food. And then, even after I had the food, I’d have to prepare it and clean up after myself. The bill was probably close to what I would have spent at the grocery store buying a week’s worth of food. I’ve been a bit frazzled lately.

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15 Amazing CSR Activities To Boost Employee Engagement

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Everyone likes to live and work in an area that is clean and well-maintained. You can help improve your community by volunteering at homeless shelters or organizing food drives. One in ten people in the United States cannot access affordable, nutritious food. It gives employees the chance to be at a leadership level.

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Magic Johnson’s Fast Break Into Business

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In 1981, he decided to begin a chain of retail sporting goods stores that he intended to take nationwide, called Magic’s 32. Even though there were nine of us, we had what we needed—two great parents, food on the table and time for the whole family to be together,” he writes in his 1992 memoir, My Life. Both parents worked hard.

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In the Spirit of Giving Back: Socorro Tequila’s Philanthropic Efforts in Jalisco

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The answer was eye-opening: The girl planned to buy food and water. Acquaintances who became friends opened their homes to the two, gave them beds to sleep on, cooked for them, cleaned for them and let them borrow their cars. Socorro, which runs in the $30 price range, is available at more than 900 restaurants and 800 retailers.

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