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...As a nano-entrepreneur myself and co-founder of Sifted, an FT-backed but standalone media company covering European start-ups, I am keen to hear his views on how long the current market downturn will last...
...corporation’s dominance of the highly strategic and fast-growing industry....
...Critics worry that taxpayers’ money is being lavished on corporations, but supporters see incentives as a down payment on a region’s future economic gains....
...The next generation of the Ford family is set to join the board of the Michigan carmaker....
...At that time, Uchida “felt the company was [becoming a] role model for Japanese corporations as it was dynamically expanding its global business with alliance partner Renault,” he recalled during an inauguration...
...Michigan....
...He was previously a senior vice-president in the office of strategic initiatives at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)....
...In the 1920s, Owen Young, president of General Electric, said that while he had an obligation to give shareholders a decent return, he also had a duty to employees, customers and the public “as a great and...
...(FT) GM’s electric boost, EU emissions race General Motors will raise spending on electric and autonomous vehicles to $20bn by 2025 after claiming a battery breakthrough will improve range and recharging...
...power — or battery-electric vehicles....
...A visit to Ford’s bodyshop complex in Dearborn, Michigan, shows how much of a gamble the company has taken: it has had to replace its arc welding equipment with machines to screw, rivet, glue and laser-weld...
...If you do, you’ve got a good product, an empowered workforce and a wonderful community.” Cascade is a B Corp, as Michigan has yet to adopt benefit corporation laws....
...Furukawa Electric agreed last September to pay a $200m fine in the car parts probe. Three Furukawa executives, all Japanese citizens, also pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms....
...Dave Camp of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee and now its chairman, saying the proposals would put US corporations on the auction block....
...Next year, Renault will launch the Twizy, a 6.5-foot-long, 3.2-foot-wide electric “urban car” in which two passengers sit in tandem....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...In fact, their biggest customer is Saudi Electric Corporation....
...GM captured headlines this month by unveiling a tiny two-wheeled electric car, known as Puma, developed in partnership with Segway....
...and General Electric....
...It is also bringing other vehicles to market, including two sectors crossover SUVs built on car frames, and petrol-electric hybrids where it has so far lagged behind Asian rivals....
...The Michigan Supreme Court slapped him down, finding in favour of the Dodges. “A business corporation is organised and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders,” the court said....
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