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How migrant business owners turn their identity into an asset, despite some bumps along the way

07/30/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

Odua Images/ShutterstockToo often, it’s anti-immigration sentiment dominating headlines in Australia. But a quieter story is going untold. Migrants are not just fitting into Australian society, they’re actively reshaping it through entrepreneurship.

Starting a business is difficult for anyone. But migrant entrepreneurs often do so without the networks, credit history, or local knowledge many Australian-born business owners take for granted.

When socialists win Democratic primaries: Will Zohran Mamdani be haunted by the Upton Sinclair effect?

07/29/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March on June 29, 2025, in New York. AP Photo/Olga FedorovaIt has happened before: an upset victory by a Democratic Socialist in an important primary election after an extraordinary grassroots campaign.

Butter wars: ‘nothing cures high prices like high prices’ – but will market forces be enough?

07/24/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

RobynRoper/Getty ImagesThe alarming rise of butter prices has become a real source of frustration for New Zealand consumers, as well as a topic of political recrim

Caution in the C-suite: How business leaders are navigating Trump 2.0

07/23/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

In the first months of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his policies – from sweeping tariffs and aggressive immigration enforcement to attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion – have thrown U.S. businesses into turmoil, leading to a 26-point decline in CEO confidence.

EU efforts to measure companies’ environmental impacts have global effects. Here’s how to make them more just

07/18/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

If you choose to buy a sustainable product at the supermarket, or invest in a sustainable portfolio at your bank, how far does that sustainability reach? Does the product’s “sustainable” label account for the environmental and labour costs where the raw materials were extracted? Does the portfolio include renewable energy in countries where the investment is needed most?

Japan and South Korea can show governments how to compete with China and US

07/17/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

Governments around the world are hustling. European policymakers, for example, are eager to boost the region’s industrial relevance in a world where the US and China dominate cutting-edge technologies. They want to move beyond the adage that “the US innovates, China replicates and the EU regulates”.

As house prices drop, will the retirement nest egg still be such a safe bet?

07/15/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

MonthiraYodtiwong/Getty Images Changes to KiwiSaver, global economic uncertainty and predictions house prices could drop by as much as 20% by 2030 all mean retirement is looking very different to how it once did.

When big sports events expand, like FIFA’s 2026 World Cup matches across North America, their climate footprint expands too

07/14/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

Lionel Messi celebrates with fans after Argentina won the FIFA World Cup championship in 2022 in Qatar.

Soaring house prices may be locking people into marriages, new research shows

07/13/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

GAS-photo/ShutterstockHouse prices continued to rise across Australia in June, recent data shows. Nationally, prices have risen about 38% in the past five years.

Corporate purpose: how boards of directors monitor the mission of European companies

07/10/2025 The Conversation News & Comments

Like hundreds of large European companies, the Veolia group has given itself a corporate purpose. ShutterstockOn April 24th, Veolia’s shareholders voted by more than 99% to inscribe the company’s corporate purpose into its bylaws.

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