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Making sure the IRS Preparers are Prepared… Backcasting & Learning Theory

ByDel Phi

Dr Dave Schrader recently (December 2016) completed a very cool dissertation pertaining to the IRS and their (in)ability to assess tax preparers’ competency, and their (in)ability to test the preparers’ preparedness. {Sure, that’s easy for you to say!} Over that last few years, the IRS has been charged with determining Tax Preparers’ competency. (Not the CPAs, mind you, but the millions of — shall we say — undocumented tax preparers.) The problem was that the…

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XGame Innovation in Carbon Capture

ByBizMan

Look at the great innovations up in Canada in the CCS xGames. Checkout the blog at SustainZine related to this very cool competition: http://sustainzine.blogspot.com/2017/01/co2-xgame-winners-in-canada-losers-in.htmlHere’s some info on this big competition in Canada: CBC News discusses competition sponsored by Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance and U.S. company NRG. Normally you think of Carbon Capture & Sequester as a dead cost. Take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (maybe at a smoke stack where it is highly concentrated, and pump…

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CO2 xGame Winners in Canada. Losers in USA?

BySustainMe

Wow. What do you do when the horses are already outta the gate? What do you do with the CO2 is already into the atmosphere? This is the idea of capturing that 400 parts per million of CO2 out of the atmosphere after it’s already, well, up in the error — oops… I mean — up in the air. Here are the winners of the XGames competition on CO2. This $20M competition is to figure…

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Sustainable Long-term good for R&D, Patents and Profits

BySustainMe

Here’s exerts from the blog over at IPzine, a sister blog spot. A recent study shows how long-term focus pays off. This study concentrated on switching the CEO compensation to longer-term. From that point forward, what happened, on average to several things related to the performance over time. Great study was by Flammer and Bansal (2016) and summarized in the WSJ, CEOs should focus on the long term, a study says. Although the study is coming…

Long-term good for R&D, Patents and Profits

ByBizMan

A recent study shows how long-term focus pays off. This study concentrated on switching the CEO compensation to longer-term. From that point forward, what happened, on average to several things related to the performance over time. Great study was by Flammer and Bansal (2016) and summarized in the WSJ, CEOs should focus on the long term, a study says. Although the study is coming out soon in the Strategic Management Journal, you can find it…

Prize of $24M to 12 scientists WSJ

ByBizMan

Breakthrough Prize awards $24 million to 12 scientific researchers. This is in the WSJ article …  via @WSJ … By  GEORGIA WELLS  Updated Dec. 4, 2016 8:11 p.m. ETCategories from Genetics to Black holes. Big players from FB to Alphabet/GOOG were on site to promote these awards and recognition. Very cool.It is unclear if these prizes are attached to business engines or incubators. However, with that level of notoriety, and the prize money, these winners should be able…