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In a RGB color space, hex #04160b is composed of 1.6% red, 8.6% green and 4.3% blue. Whereas in a CMYK color space, it is composed of 81.8% cyan, 0% magenta, 50% yellow and 91.4% black. It has a hue angle of 143.3 degrees, a saturation of 69.2% and a lightness of 5.1%. #04160b color hex could be obtained by blending #082c16 with #000000. Closest websafe color is: #000000.

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#04160b color description : Very dark (mostly black) cyan - lime green.

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The hexadecimal color #04160b has RGB values of R:4, G:22, B:11 and CMYK values of C:0.82, M:0, Y:0.5, K:0.91. Its decimal value is 267787.

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RGB Decimal 4, 22, 11 rgb(4,22,11)
RGB Percent 1.6, 8.6, 4.3 rgb(1.6%,8.6%,4.3%)
CMYK 82, 0, 50, 91
HSL 143.3°, 69.2, 5.1 hsl(143.3,69.2%,5.1%)
HSV (or HSB) 143.3°, 81.8, 8.6
Web Safe 000000 #000000
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XYZ 0.397, 0.624, 0.416
xyY 0.276, 0.434, 0.624
CIE-LCH 5.634, 8.849, 154.83
CIE-LUV 5.634, -3.909, 3.071
Hunter-Lab 7.898, -4.841, 2.405
Binary 00000100, 00010110, 00001011

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Utah Elementary School Fires Substitute Teacher After She Shames Student For Being Thankful For His Two Dads

When a substitute teacher in Utah asked her class what they were thankful for this Thanksgiving, no one probably expected the scene to end in the sub's forced removal from the school.

But, sadly, that's exactly what happened at Deerfield Elementary School in Cedar Hills.

After the substitute asked her question, one 11-year-old student identified as "D" said he was thankful he would soon be adopted by his two foster fathers.

That's when the teacher went off the rails, saying:

"That's nothing to be thankful for...Homosexuality is wrong. Two men living together is a sin."

Multiple other students implored the substitute to stop as she went on her rant.

But she refused to calm down, prompting several young girls to leave the room and get the school's principal.

The principal returned with the girls shortly thereafter to escort the substitute from the building.

Posting to social media, former Dancing With the Stars choreographer and dancer Louis van Amstel, one of the boy's fathers, thanked the girls and the principal for their swift action.

He was also told that the substitute would never be allowed to work at Deerfield Elementary every again.

Van Amstel told Fox 13 News that:

″'D' has been in foster care for years and has been through two failed adoptions, so his thankfulness was genuine."

The father also mentioned that the incident left his son shook up and fearful that it would make his two Dads hesitant to adopt him.

Upon returning home, however, the parents made sure to tell their son they "couldn't be more proud of him."

The next day, the parents and son were surprised at their front door by messages of love and support taped all over by their neighbors.

Van Amsel commented:

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“Where would the country be without this great land of ours?” the phony candidate intoned, a line I now discover was later appropriated by Robin Williams as part of his Ronald Reagan impersonation. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

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The State of the Union in Six Words: Donald Trump Is Full of It

Hello, he lied.

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Watching Donald Trump’s State of the Union Tuesday night I kept flashing back on the routine I saw a talk show host perform years ago at the Kennedy Center in Washington– God help me, I think it was David Frost – in which he imitated a politician giving a speech that was one endless, meaningless string of empty, non-sequitur rhetoric.

“Where would the country be without this great land of ours?” the phony candidate intoned, a line I now discover was later appropriated by Robin Williams as part of his Ronald Reagan impersonation.

No matter. The point is simply that Trump surrounded his usual meretricious, phony baloney claims of greatness – his own, of course, and, oh right, this great land of ours – with a heaping helping of “It’s morning in America,” imitation-Reagan speechifying. Toward the final blessed end, he declared:

Our most exciting journeys still await. Our biggest victories are still to come. We have not yet begun to dream. We must choose whether we are defined by our differences — or whether we dare to transcend them. We must choose whether we will squander our inheritance — or whether we will proudly declare that we are Americans. We do the incredible. We defy the impossible. We conquer the unknown. This is the time to re-ignite the American imagination. This is the time to search for the tallest summit, and set our sights on the brightest star.

Which reminded me of the poster I once saw for an old movie biography of former Nazi and NASA rocket scientist Werner von Braun. The film’s title was I Aim at the Stars. At the bottom of the poster someone had scrawled, “But mostly I hit London.”

Because preceding all that two-bit eloquence was a vapor-fueled stream of bombast and prevarication. A quick glance at various scrupulous fact checks shows a plethora of exaggerations or lies about the economy and employment, trade agreements, tariffs, health care, the current state of NATO, the current state of ISIS, the current state of Korea (“If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea.” Wow.) and of course, everyone’s favorite, border security.

Bordertown El Paso, Texas, came in for special attention, much to its own chagrin. Trump claimed it once “was considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities,” until it got a wall. But El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles told NBC: "It is sad to hear President Trump state falsehoods about El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to justify the building of a 2,000 mile wall… El Paso was a safe city long before a wall was built. President Trump continues to give a false narrative.” And Jon Barela, CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, an economic development group in the region, tweeted, “The President is living in an alternative universe based on a false narrative and offensive comments about our way of life. I say this as a life long Republican, businessman, and proud American.”

Particularly reprehensible were Trump’s claims that, “Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” and that Virginia’s endangered Democratic Governor Ralph Northam “stated he would execute a baby after birth.”

The Washington Post’s fact checkers write, “The legislation in New York would not have ‘allowed a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.’ It states that a health-care practitioner ‘may perform an abortion when, according to the practitioner’s reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case: the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.’”

As for Virginia, the fact checking team at The New York Times report, “While Mr. Northam was talking about an end-of-life care discussion in the case of a child that would not live,” Trump and Republicans “seized on his remarks as evidence that Mr. Northam supported killing babies after their birth.”

I could go on but you get the picture. All the above reminds me of that old show business joke: I called my agent this morning. “Hello,” he lied.

Trump even seemed to try to take credit for more women in the workforce but when he declared, “We also have more women serving in the Congress than ever before,” he could, perversely, take some credit. After all, it’s his misogyny and overall awfulness that compelled so many of them to seek and win electoral office.

There were some other choice bits of bomb throwing – especially, as remarked by all, Trump’s special admixture of attack dog and self-pity that had him decry “ridiculous partisan investigations” and declare to the congressional crowd, “If there is going to be peace in legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just does not work that way.”

Aren’t I clever, he seemed to be saying -- that rhymes, get it? Too clever by half, Individual 1, because as Wired magazine noted in December,  Trump faces “at least 17 distinct court cases stemming from at least seven different sets of prosecutors and investigators. (That total does not count any congressional inquiries, nor does it include any other inquiries into other administration officials unrelated to Russia.)"

Believe me, the congressional investigations will soon be piling up, too, like Chevys at a Demolition Derby. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who from behind shot Trump such a look when he spouted that nonsense, told reporters Wednesday that she saw his words as “an all-out threat,” but that, “It’s our congressional responsibility, and if we didn’t do it, we would be delinquent.”

In other words, pal, despite your threats, no way out. In spite of Trump, and thanks to Pelosi and the House and other defenders of democracy, the state of the union may remain strong but he will not, wrong on virtually everything and headed for self-destruction.

To be blunt, the president is full of it. But you knew that.

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This month marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The legacy of this event is still controversial. I recently spoke with Professor Yiju Huang of Fordham University on the politics of memory in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. She is the author of Tapestry of Light: Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution, which examines the literature and art produced in the wake of the Cultural Revolution from the perspective of Freudian trauma theory.

Nicholas Haggerty: What’s the standard view of the Cultural Revolution in China?

Yiju Huang: In China, the Cultural Revolution is understood as a decade of chaos, but also there was a hasty attempt to bring a sense of closure. Although Mao’s image was tarnished, his legacy is also salvaged—‘he was misguided by the scapegoat figures of the ‘Gang of Four,’ but now that the dust has settled, we can move forward.’

From my perspective, however, there still linger a number of ghosts. The crimes that were committed in the utopian name of the greater good have not been properly worked through.

NH: The two theories that are taught in American college classrooms are that the Cultural Revolution was Mao's Machiavellian scheme to regain the power he had lost after the Great Leap Forward by mobilizing the populations with which he was popular and/or the result of Mao’s sincere concern that the revolution was dying. What do you think of these perspectives?

YH: These two accounts are not contradictory. The latter though is more of a political understanding that can be traced back to the intense global interest in the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s. The Parisian intelligentsia’s profound infatuation with Maoism comes to mind here. Maoism represented an alternative path not only from the universality of the capitalist mode of history but also from the ossified fate of Stalinist Russia.

NH: Do you think there is any legacy that can be salvaged?

YH: That’s a really hard question. We should certainly engage with the legacies—the multiple and often contending meanings—of the Cultural Revolution from theoretical, historical, political and psychological perspectives.

But I am doubtful of the kind of emancipatory “spirit” that can be, or should be, salvaged from this violent period. For Alain Badiou, the Chinese Cultural Revolution echoed the Paris Commune and was a necessary political event in dissolving the centralized state apparatus and saturating the party-state. I find such total description of revolutionary stages and the massive violence it tolerates very disquieting.

In my view, the work of mourning should come first before one can begin to imagine the revival of an emancipatory legacy. In other words, you have to—to invoke Derrida here—introduce a psychoanalytic element to the political realm.

NH: It’s not only intellectuals in the West or those associated with China’s New Left, however, who are trying to salvage something here. Tens of thousands of people make pilgrimage to Mao’s birth village and the caves in Yanan where he was based in the 1930s. If those left behind by the current economy in China are inspired by the legacy of Mao Zedong, is there anything wrong with that?

YH: You raise a very interesting question. Cultural Revolution scholars have done important work on mass politics. Yiching Wu [author of the recently published book, The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis], for instance, is not interested in Mao or the power struggles at the top of the regime, but rather the local developments, or the gap between the intention of the leadership and grass-root mass democracy. He thinks the legacies of the Cultural Revolution are a kind of anti-bureaucratic stance that it encouraged and a greater sense of politicized agency.

NH: Why do you think, then, that there is interest among intellectuals in China and abroad in salvaging something from the Cultural Revolution?

YH: Discontent with the present—a desire to find an alternative path from the global structure. It’s a growth out of a critical desire to engage with past to find a belated answer.

NH: Some historians, like Maurice Meisner, take the "long view" towards the Chinese revolution, and place their analytical focus on 1949 rather than events of the 1960s. Between 1949, when the Communists took power, and 1976, when Mao died, life expectancy rose tremendously, literacy rates rose tremendously, which these historians argue provided the groundwork for China’s economic miracle.

YH: We must question this premise of the legitimacy of development. This long view is in fact part of the Hegelian–Marxian system of dialectics and progression, which I don't necessarily agree with. Who are the agents within this totalistic narrative? Who are the outcasts or scapegoats during this triumphant progressive sequence? Can the logic of development justify human loss, grief and suffering?

NH:  Your book deals with this suffering as expressed in the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution. What is your project in your book?

YH: I want to glance backward at this period of history through its afterlives and trace via art how present China is haunted by unworked-through pasts.

NH: Reading the Cultural Revolution through the art produced afterwards, what did you find?

YH: A sense of indeterminacy. I’m trying to show that between Mao and market, there is continuity, rather than rupture. There is questioning of the project of development, and a melancholic dwelling on history.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Nicholas Haggerty is an editor of the News Lens International. He lives in Taipei.

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The Best 4 AI Tools to Transform Your Business in 2020

Nowadays, it is not an easy task to keep pace with the times. Everything is rapidly changing: new technologies are being invented, businesses are being opened, medicines are being discovered.   Today you are a student, who writes his modern technology essay with excitement, tomorrow — you are an enthusiastic start-up entrepreneur who is full of AI business ideas.

However, both students and entrepreneurs are in need of fast reaction and modern technologies understanding to be competitive and productive. To do so, Information scientists and programmers in the whole world are developing AI technologies to implement AI in business as well as in daily people`s lives.

Adopting AI for small businesses, start-ups, and simple routine tasks already today allows us to live efficiently, sustainably and simply better.

Today, if you take all these information science essays, various researches, scientific articles, you will come to the realization that yes – AI development is working on improvement. There are dozens of examples and case studies that show how the implementation of AI programs, even in big corporations, helped to optimize the work and multiply the profits. I recommend you to read the free Walmart and HANA case to better understand the power of AI technologies. (I would make a suggestion that after analyzing this article you will consider AI as one of the most fascinating topics).

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It is one of the most popular business intelligence tools today. More and more students include DataRobot examples when they do their artificial intelligence essay. DR works with global brands, like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Airbnb, United Airlines, Panasonic, Nippon steels, and others.

Talking about the tool itself — it is an automated machine learning platform that helps analysts and data scientists of different levels build and deploy better predictive models and improve discoverability of valuable business insights.

What is more, DR supports data science and even provides workshop courses in around 50 global universities.

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It is a brilliant tool that helps your team to prepare data for use. Datalogue automatically receives raw data, cleans it ups, and transforms it into the product for data consumers and analytics.

Datalogue works with such well-known brands as the New York Times, Forbes, Ameritrade network, and others.

Spending less time for data preparation business allows getting well-analyzed, classified and transparent data.

Pros: user-friendly interface;

Cons: quite high prices.

It is an AI software that helps to make your business operations smarter and easier. Rainbird enables your business to build systems based on human-like decisions to increase quality and efficiency.

Basically, Rainbird combines human-like knowledge with the company`s data, which leads to new ways of staff interactions with clients and new approaches to problem-solving.

So, Rainbird is in some way a completely independent working ecosystem that transforms the way your business works.

Pros: controlled learning algorithms;

Cons: takes time to implement it in the business.

We can hardly imagine our lives without social media. The same story happens with business lives. Social media can become a powerful tool to promote and develop your business, but it’s important to use the right methods and algorithms.

 Chatfuel can be a great help for this. Chatfiuel is the world-leading chatbot platform for Facebook messenger. Chatfuel’s clients range from small and medium businesses to the world’s most recognizable brands. The most known clients are: Adidas, Lego, T-mobile, and others. What`s more — there is no need for coding!

Pros: free trial;

Cons: are there any?

To sum up, I hope this article will help you to make a step forward into the AI era. But, please, keep in mind that successful business is not only about technology, it’s also about everyday work and strong will to make an impact.

Good luck!

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Damião was working in the fields when he received word that his wife was leaving the family. Heartbroken, Damião suddenly found himself a single dad — an overwhelming burden. Thankfully, he had the help and encouragement of the staff at the Compassion center attended by his sons, Davi and Luan. As a result, Damião now has the strength to be the kind of father his children need. “Being a family is being united,” he says. “Being with [my children] is what makes me happy.”


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When an asset generates some income or revenue, it is considered a Performing Asset (PA). When that asset stops generating income, it is considered a Non- Performing Assets (NPA).

A Non-Performing Asset is a loan asset that stops generating any income, either in fee commission, interest, or other costs. There is always a debate amongst economists that an ideally working financial process allows smooth regulation of investments and savings, leading to economic growth.   Check out America's Best Bookkeepers

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A well-maintained financial system helps to accomplish a well-organized distribution of resources over time by eliminating the inadequacies taking place due to other market resistances and socio-economic factors. In a well-operating financial system, managing Non-Performing Assets is a crucial part. Non-Performing Assets, after a certain point, are a cause of concern for every firm, as they affect the smooth flow of credit. Credit is the most important aspect for any business as it helps in the growth of the company.

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A substandard asset is the one that has stayed Non-Performing Asset from less than or equal to 12 months. In this case, the security charge’s present value is not enough to guarantee full due recovery to the bank. In simple words, this type of asset will include the asset’s highly defined weaknesses, which threatens the debt’s liquidity. Furthermore, such assets are ranked according to the loss they will incur to the bank if the insufficiencies aren’t corrected.

Doubtful asset

Doubtful assets are the ones that have been in the substandard category for full 12 months. A loan becomes doubtful when it inherits all the qualities defined in substandard assets along with traits of lacking liquidity. Based on present known conditions, facts, and values, such assets get highly questionable.

Loss asset

Loss assets are the ones where internal or external auditors or banks notice a loss, but that amount is not stated completely. In simple words, an asset is thought unredeemable and of such little importance that it is not included as a bank’s asset. In such assets, the guarantee of getting back the value is so little that even with having a bit of hope of recovery, the banks don’t consider paying attention to them. Check out America's Best Bookkeepers

Why do Non-Performing Assets occur?

The reason behind the occurrence of Non-Performing Assets is bad loans. Generally, it is the failure to complete the financial commitments, state it as a non-ability to pay the loan. Such loans can come due to the given reasons:

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  • Incremental components caused due to internal bank management, including terms of credit, credit policy, etc.

Non-Performing Assets are not restricted to bad impressions on account books only, but they have a massive effect on the national economy. Here are some of the impacts of Non-Performing Assets:

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  • Loss of uninsured deposits happen, thus the depositors don’t enjoy the complete returns
  • Bank shareholders get affected badly
  • Funds are redirected from good to bad projects that result in bad investments, which adversely impact the economy
  • No or low repayment of loan and interest lead to liquidity problems

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Anthony Davis is having a monster year. The 24-year-old New Orleans Pelicans big man is putting up a whopping 26.5 points, 10.6 rebounds, and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting a career-best 55 percent from the floor. In other words, aside from Milwaukee's 23-year-old unicorn Giannis Antetokounmpo, Davis is the young player most GM's would choose to build a team around.

Until recently, dealing Davis was next to unthinkable. But with his teammate and fellow superstar DeMarcus Cousins out for the season due to injury and not likely to return when his contract expires at the end of the year, dealing Davis suddenly doesn't seem so far-fetched.

According to a new report from Sporting News' Sean Deveney, the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors are among the teams clamoring for a chance to acquire the service of the 6-foot-10 former Kentucky Wildcat this summer.

"Several teams—Boston, most prominently, but also Golden State, San Antonio and Chicago—will go into this trade deadline not only with their own rosters in mind, but with some consideration for the potential of a Davis trade this summer," Deveney reports.

So, why would the Pelicans consider dealing such a valuable asset? Well, without the towering one-two punch of Boogie and Davis, the Pelicans' window for winning is quickly closing.

"A.D. is obviously a great player, but they're stuck and his free agency is coming faster than you think," one general manager told Deveney. "It is hard to operate under the gun with a situation like that, so it is something they'll need to at least explore this summer. If (General Manager Dell Demps) stays on, he is going to want to find ways to keep building and maybe even take a chance on keeping DeMarcus. But if Dell goes, there are four or five teams hoping hard for a fire sale."

It's hard to imagine how good the Warriors or Celtics would be if they landed Davis. Both teams are already incredibly stacked, but as we've seen in recent months—with the likes of Carmelo Anthony, Paul George and Blake Griffin all changing teams—in the NBA, anything is possible.


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The Miami Heat just beat the Indiana Pacers in game seven of the Eastern Conference finals. But Justin Bieber's outfit may have stolen the show. The Biebs showed up to the American Airlines Arena in a leather shirt, three chainz, and a Just Don Acid Wash snapback—and had everyone talking.

Of course you had your Beliebers defending the singer, and even professing their love to him... again. You also had a few who said he killed it. But there were also some who had harsh words for JayBee, even though he was on-trend. Guess this look only works for rappers and not teen pop stars?

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Heading into a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee last week, Jay Clayton was both a prominent, sought-after attorney and a man of mystery.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is currently a partner with the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell and, by many accounts, is a master of corporate deal making with a long and distinguished career advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions transactions, capital markets offerings, and regulatory and enforcement proceedings.

He is also, perhaps owing to the confidentiality of many mergers and acquisitions, a very private figure, with only a smattering of public press releases, client alerts, and media clippings to tout his accomplishments and elucidate regulatory and enforcement viewpoints.

During the March 23 hearing (a prelude to confirmation by the full Senate), Clayton’s formidable experience in corporate law was leveraged for both partisan praise and pushback.

In a financial disclosure recently filed with the Office of Government Ethics, Clayton revealed that he earned $7.6 million this year from his law firm. In the filing, he detailed how he would unwind his relationship with the law firm that currently employs him.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) wasn’t assuaged by that plan. Prior to last week’s hearing, she detailed concerns about his ability to “effectively serve” as SEC chairman, citing “numerous conflicts of interest and work on behalf of corporations with ties to Russia and Iran.”

“I am concerned that your long career representing companies regulated by the SEC will require you to recuse yourself from a wide variety of SEC enforcement matters, which may, in turn, limit the SEC’s ability to resolve cases in an expeditious manner,” Cortez Masto wrote to the nominee.

She compared Clayton’s potential conflicts to those of former SEC Chair Mary Jo White. “Like you, Ms. White represented corporate clients at a large law firm before being nominated,” the letter says. “After White was confirmed to lead the SEC, the Commission routinely struggled to resolve enforcement matters because [she] had to recuse herself from participating in dozens of SEC enforcement decisions.”

Because of White’s client list—and her husband’s continuing employment at a large law firm—she had to recuse herself from 48 enforcement investigations. “That often left the Commission deadlocked on decisions relating to enforcement actions, delaying settlements, and opening the door … to a lighter punishment in at least one instance,” Cortez Masto claimed.

These concerns were repeated and amplified at the Committee hearing.

“A big part of the job is being the enforcement cop on the beat for Wall Street,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). “It is clear that the SEC chair will play a critical role in deciding what the enforcement position of the Commission will be.”

White claimed (although her statistics were disputed) that in recent history Republicans have favored weaker enforcement than Democrats on the Commission. The chairman is often the deciding vote when the Commission is deadlocked and, if he or she must recuse themselves, “major enforcement actions don’t go forward and wrongdoing may go unpunished,” she added.

Current government ethics rules would require Clayton to recuse himself from any case involving a former client of his or of Sullivan & Cromwell, for at least two years. That was troubling to Warren, who pointed out that the roster of recusal-mandated clients included Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and UBS, institutions that have violated securities laws in recent years.

“Any strategic company that wanted to avoid an SEC enforcement action could just hire Sullivan & Cromwell to represent them before the agency,” she said.

“Partisanship is pretty strong on Washington right now. But I do believe, having talked to a lot of people, that the mission of the Commission doesn’t have to be a partisan mission.”

SEC Chair Nominee Jay Clayton

“Holding Wall Street firms accountable is a major job of the SEC’s mission. and the chair needs to be able to participate in those enforcement actions and be the cop on the beat for the American people, not on the sidelines as former clients and Wall Street firms are able to skate free. That raises a very serious concern about your nomination,” Warren added.

Clayton debated whether a recusal automatically meant a deadlock. “I’m not sure about the characterization of who goes for more enforcement, Democrats of Republicans,” he said. “On enforcement matters the Commission is almost always unanimous.”

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) continued with that particular line of questioning.

“You spent your career protecting some of the biggest names on Wall Street, and those relationships pose a host of conflicts for this position,” he said. “I'm concerned that you may need to recuse yourself too often at a time when we need a strong, independent SEC chair on the frontline of enforcement.”

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the Committee’s chairman, stressed Clayton’s qualifications over his conflicts.

“He has extensive expertise in our financial markets as a highly regarded securities lawyer,” he said of the nominee. “For decades, he has helped companies access our capital markets, increase their ability to invest in the U.S., and grow and create jobs.”

Crapo said he was pleased that Clayton will focus on capital formation. “The JOBS Act helped revitalize the primary markets, and both Congress and the SEC should continue to find ways to help companies go public and allow investors to share in their success,” he said.

Crapo also cited the need for “the SEC to do retrospective reviews of its own regulations to ensure they are working out as intended and are still appropriate.” This, he said, is in line with the President’s own executive orders on regulation.

“In terms of having fewer public companies, I do think it is a problem, and a problem that is not well known,” Clayton said. “Fewer companies getting in on the growth phase means fewer returns for people who participate in the public markets. I do want to see more public companies.”

The following is a selection from the opening statement offered by Jay Clayton, nominee for chairman of the SEC, during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on March 23.
Making sure our markets are fair, open, orderly, and efficient—and ensuring that investors are protected—is the fundamental responsibility of the SEC. If confirmed, I will take up this responsibility with energy and purpose. I pledge to work with my fellow Commissioners, the SEC Staff, this Committee, and the many others who support and defend our capital markets.
Based on all of my experiences, nationally and internationally and on Wall Street and Main Street, I firmly believe that:
Well-functioning capital markets are important to every American;
All Americans should have the opportunity to participate in, and benefit from, our capital markets on a fair basis, including being provided accurate information about what they are buying when they invest; and
There is zero room for bad actors in our capital markets.
I am 100 percent committed to rooting out any fraud and shady practices in our financial system. I recognize that bad actors undermine the hard-earned confidence that is essential to the efficient operation of our capital markets. I pledge to you and the American people that I will show no favoritism to anyone.
One last comment: For over 70 years, the U.S. capital markets have been the envy of the world. Our markets have allowed our businesses to grow and create jobs. Our markets have provided a broad cross-section of America the opportunity to invest in that growth, including through pension funds and other retirement assets. In recent years, our markets have faced growing competition from abroad. U.S.-listed IPOs by non-U.S. companies have slowed dramatically. More significantly, it is clear that our public capital markets are less attractive to business than in the past.
As a result, investment opportunities for Main Street investors are more limited. Here, I see meaningful room for improvement. I am excited to work with you, my fellow Commissioners and the SEC staff to pursue those improvements and, in doing so, will always be vigilant to ensure that the Commission is steadfast in protecting investors.
Source: Senate Banking Committee

Easing the “on-ramp to the public capital market process,” was cited by Clayton as a priority. “By easing the on-ramp I don’t mean easing the important regulations that public companies face,” he clarified. “I mean making it less costly upfront to become a public company.”

Clayton weighed in on corporate governance concerns, in particular efforts by some pre-IPO companies to proactively limit shareholder voting rights.

“My sense is, and I could be completely off on this, that there is so much thirst for public companies that it is easier for a company to set a particular set of governance requirements than it might have done in the past,” Clayton said. “I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but it is a change in the balance.”

Brown made a thinly veiled (if not direct) reference to President Trump’s business dealings when he asked Clayton how he would advise a client interested in complying with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act if that client was considering a business opportunity in Azerbaijan with a politically connected family “known to be corrupt and tied to the Iranian revolutionary guard.”

“I think you need to tell that client to think long and hard about whether they want to have the potential exposure, not just to the FCPA but similar oversight by other OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries,” Clayton said. “There are some jurisdictions where, in the vast majority of the cases, it may just not make sense to participate.”

On the topic of enforcement, Sen. Mary Kathryn “Heidi” Heitkamp (D-N.D.) once again raised the complaint that no one went to jail in the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis. She asked: “Do you believe that executives who act recklessly, but not knowingly, and as a result cause significant harm to our financial system, should be held criminally liable for financial crimes?”

“That’s a question for the courts and the legislature,” Clayton initially answered.

“Far too often you can hide behind the ‘knowing.’ It is hard to prove someone actually knew, but it isn’t hard to prove that someone should have known or acted recklessly. Moving forward we could enact that criminal standard,” Heitkamp said, suggesting that the difficulty in reaching the level of criminal intent could be rectified by lowering the standard.

While Clayton agreed that individual accountability drives behavior more than corporate accountability, he was not willing to fully support the idea of altering established rules for individual liability. “I’m not really sure about that,” he said. “It strikes me as a very big step.”

“Companies should be held accountable if they make illicit profits and those profits should be disgorged,” Clayton added. “There should be deterrents at the company level, but keep in mind, shareholders do bear those costs.”

Brown reminded Clayton that President Trump, and various advisers, have said they plan to “to do a big number on Dodd-Frank.” He asked the nominee: “What aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act will you be attacking?”

“I don’t have any specific plans for attack,” Clayton said with a slight chuckle. “I do believe that Dodd-Frank should be looked at, in particular, those rules that are already in place regarding whether they are achieving their objectives effectively. I have no plans, however, for attacking a specific provision of Dodd-Frank.”

In a separate line of questioning, Clayton spoke of the importance of agency-directed cost-benefit analysis.

“The economic impact of rules and regulations that are promulgated, especially by the SEC, is very important,” he said. “We are often looking back after a decade or two and discovering profound effects we didn’t realize.”

Although not his final words at the hearing, Clayton offered what may be his final thesis for wanting the SEC’s top post. “My job for 20 yeas has been to reach consensus,” he said. “People don’t do transactions unless they agree to them. I believe in consensus and I would very much like to as chairman, have unanimous votes on important matters.”

“Partisanship is pretty strong on Washington right now,” Clayton added. “But I do believe, having talked to a lot of people, that the mission of the Commission doesn’t have to be a partisan mission.”


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To understand the nature of sustainable biophysical/economic systems. To determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for sustainability. To explore the trade-off between sustainability and social or economic justice. To investigate the application of the MEP and/or the MEPP to economic systems, or agent-based models of economic systems.

Kenneth Aiello Member since: Thursday, January 23, 2020 Full Member

Ph.D., Biology and Society, Arizona State University, B.S., Sociology, Arizona State University,, B.S., Biology, Arizona State University

Kenneth D. Aiello is a postdoctoral research scholar with the Global BioSocial Complexity Initiative at ASU. Kenneth’s research contributes to cross disciplinary conversations on how historical developments in biological, social, and cultural knowledge systems are governed by processes that transform the structure, dynamics, and function of complex systems. Applying computational historical analysis and epistemology to question what scientific knowledge is and how we can analyze changes in knowledge, he uses text analysis, social network analysis, and machine learning to measure similarities and differences between the knowledge claims of individual agents and groups. His work builds on how to assess contested knowledge claims and measure the evolution of knowledge across complex systems and multiple dimensions of scale. This approach also engages in dynamic new debates about global and local structures of knowledge shaped by technological innovation within microbiology related to public policy, shrinking resources given to biomedical ideas as opposed to “translation”, and the ethics of scientific discovery. Using interdisciplinary methods for understanding historical content and context rich narratives contributes to understanding new domains and major transitions in science and provides a richer understanding of how knowledge emerges.

Jagoda Anna Kaszowska Member since: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 Full Member

Ph.D., Finance

Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences and in Macroprudential Research Division at National Bank of Poland. She graduated in Mathematics (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and in Economics (University of Alcala, Spain). In 2017 she obtained Fulbright Advanced Research Award. In the United States, she carried out research on systemic risk and complex systems. Her doctoral dissertation was about the measurement and modeling of systemic risk using simulation methods and complex systems approach (the results to be published by Palgrave Macmillan US). Previously, she gained experience on agent-based modeling while working with Juan Luis Santos on the European Commission FP 7 MOSIPS project (

Mathematics, complex systems, financial modeling, agent-based modeling, econometrics, macroprudential policies, systemic risk, cental banking

Davide Secchi Member since: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 Full Member Reviewer

PhD in Business Administration

I am currently Associate Professor of Organizational Cognition and Director of the Research Centre for Computational & Organisational Cognition at the Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse. My current research efforts are on socially-based decision making, agent-based modeling, cognitive processes in organizations and corporate social responsibility. He is author of more than 50 articles and book chapters, the monograph Extendable Rationality (2011), and he recently edited Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior with M. Neumann (2016).

My simulation research focuses on the applications of ABM to organizational behavior studies. I study socially-distributed decision making—i.e., the process of exploiting external resources in a social environment—and I work to develop its theoretical underpinnings in order to to test it. A second stream of research is on how group dynamics affect individual perceptions of social responsibility and on the definition and measurement of individual social responsibility (I-SR).

Nicholas Magliocca Member since: Monday, January 31, 2011

Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Systems, Master's in Environmental Management (M.E.M.), B.S. in Environmental Systems

My research focuses on building a systemic understanding of coupled human-natural systems. In particular, I am interested in understanding how patterns of land-use and land-cover change emerge from human alterations of natural processes and the resulting feedbacks. Study systems of interest include those undergoing agricultural to urban conversion, typically known as urban sprawl, and those in which protective measures, such as wildfire suppression or flood/storm impact controls, can lead to long-term instability.

Dynamic agent- and process-based simulation models are my primary tools for studying human and natural systems, respectively. My past work includes the creation of dynamic, process-based simulation models of the wildland fires along the urban-wildland interface (UWI), and artificial dune construction to protect coastal development along a barrier island coastline. My current research involves the testing, refinement, extension of an economic agent-based model of coupled housing and land markets (CHALMS), and a new project developing a generalized agent-based model of land-use change to explore local human-environmental interactions globally.

Derek Robinson Member since: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 Full Member Reviewer

The goal of my research program is to improve our understanding about highly integrated natural and human processes. Within the context of Land-System Science, I seek to understand how natural and human systems interact through feedback mechanisms and affect land management choices among humans and ecosystem (e.g., carbon storage) and biophysical processes (e.g., erosion) in natural systems. One component of this program involves finding novel methods for data collection (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles) that can be used to calibrate and validate models of natural systems at the resolution of decision makers. Another component of this program involves the design and construction of agent-based models to formalize our understanding of human decisions and their interaction with their environment in computer code. The most exciting, and remaining part, is coupling these two components together so that we may not only quantify the impact of representing their coupling, but more importantly to assess the impacts of changing climate, technology, and policy on human well-being, patterns of land use and land management, and ecological and biophysical aspects of our environment.

To achieve this overarching goal, my students and I conduct fieldwork that involves the use of state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in combination with ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) equipment, RTK global positioning system (GPS) receivers, weather and soil sensors, and a host of different types of manual measurements. We bring these data together to make methodological advancements and benchmark novel equipment to justify its use in the calibration and validation of models of natural and human processes. By conducting fieldwork at high spatial resolutions (e.g., parcel level) we are able to couple our representation of natural system processes at the scale at which human actors make decisions and improve our understanding about how they react to changes and affect our environment.

land use; land management; agricultural systems; ecosystem function; carbon; remote sensing; field measurements; unmanned aerial vehicle; human decision-making; erosion, hydrological, and agent-based modelling

Audrey Lustig Member since: Thursday, July 18, 2013

PhD Candidate - Ecological Modelling and complex system - Lincoln University, New Zealand, Master's in computer science and modelling complex systems - ENS Lyon, France, Bioinformatics and Modeling Engineering - INSA Lyon, France

I am strongly interested in ecological modeling and complex system and truly enjoyed working with a variety of tools to uncover patterns in empirical data and explore their ecological and evolutionary consequences. My primary research is to conduct research in the field of ‘ecological complexity’, including the development of appropriate descriptive measure to quantify the structural, spatial and temporal complexity of ecosystem and the identification of the mechanism that generate this complexity, through modeling and field studies.
Currently investigated is how biological characteristics of invasive species (dispersal strategies and demographic processes) interact with abiotic variables and resource distribution to determine establishment success and spread in a complex heterogeneous environment (Individual based modelling integrated with GIS technologies).

Mazaher Kianpour Member since: Thursday, October 25, 2018 Full Member

B.Sc., Computer Engineering, Payame Noor University, M.Sc., Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Ph.D., Information Security, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Mazaher Kianpour is a PhD candidate at NTNU. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering (Software) from the Payame Noor University. He obtained his Master’s degree in Architecture of Computer Systems from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. He started his PhD in Information Security at NTNU in May 2018. His PhD research lies at the intersection of economics and information security with a socio-technical perspective. He has several years of work experience at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and his professional training includes Computer Networks, Cybersecurity and Risk Management.

My main research interest is modelling of information security, business operations and deterrents in complex ICT ecosystem. I will in particular focus on the complex interaction between various stakeholders and actors in the information security business domain. In order to model and better understand the information security ecosystem, I rely on agent-based simulation and quantitative modelling techniques such as stochastic modelling, discrete event simulations and game theory. Of particular interest is to gain increased understanding on how various security threats and measures influence business operations in the digital ecosystem.

Bruno Bonté Member since: Monday, February 13, 2017 Full Member

PhD in Computer Science applied to Modelling and Simulation, University of Montpellier 2, Master degree in Computer Science applied to Artificial Intelligence and Decision in Paris 6 University of Pierre and Marie Curry

Master Degree

I discovered at the same time Agent-Based Modeling method and Companion Modelling approach during my master degrees (engeenering and artificial intelligence and decision) internship at CIRAD in 2005 and 2006 where I had the opportunity to participate as a modeller to a ComMod process (Farolfi et al., 2010).

Then, during my PhD in computer Science applied to Modeling and Simulation, I learned the Theory of Modeling and Simulation and the Discrete EVent System specification formalism and proposed a conceptual, formal and operational framework to evaluate simulation models based on the way models are used instead of their ability to reproduce the target system behavior (Bonté et al., 2012). Applied to the surveillance of Epidemics, this work was rather theoritical but very educative and structuring to formulate my further models and research questions about modeling and simulation.

From 2011 to 2013, I worked on viability theory applied to forest management at the Compex System Lab of Irstea (now Inrae) and learned about the interest of agregated models for analytical results (Bonté et al, 2012; Mathias et al, 2015).

Since 2013, I’m working for Inrae at the joint The Joint Research Unit “Water Management, Actors, Territories” (UMR G-EAU) where I’m involved in highly engaging interdisciplinary researches such as:
- The Multi-plateforme International Summer School about Agent Based Modelling and Simulation (MISSABMS)
- The development of the CORMAS (COmmon Pool Resources Multi-Agents Systems) agent-based modeling and simulation Platform (Bommel et al., 2019)
- Impacts of the adaptation to global changes using computerised serious games (Bonté et al., 2019; Bonté et al. , 2021)
- The use of experimentation to study social behaviors (Bonté et al. 2019b)
- The impact of information systems in SES trajectories (Paget et al., 2019a)
- Adaptation and transformations of traditional water management and infrastructures systems (Idda et al., 2017)
- Situational multi-agent approaches for collective irrigation (Richard et al., 2019)
- Combining psyhcological and economical experiments to study relations bewteen common pool resources situations, economical behaviours and psychological attitudes.

My research is about modelling and simulation of complex systems. My work is to use, and participate to the development of, integrative tools at the formal level (based on the Discrete EVent System Specification (DEVS) formalism), at the conceptual level (based on integrative paradigms of different forms such as Multi-Agents Systems paradigm (MAS), SES framework or viability theory), and at the level of the use of modelling and simulation for collective decision making (based on the Companion Modelling approach (ComMod)). Since 2013 and my integration in the G-EAU mixt research units, my object of studies were focused on multi-scale social and ecological systems, applied to water resource management and adaptation of territories to global change and I added experimentation to my research interest, developping methods combining agent-based model and human subjects actions.

S Gym Member since: Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Compuer Engineer, Master in Computer Science Student

This paper investigates how collective action is affected when the interaction is driven by the underlying hierarchical structure of an organization, e.g., a company. The performance of collection action is measured as the rate of contribution to a public good, e.g., an organization’s objective.

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ConnectiCare to Offer Plans on Connecticut’s SHOP Exchange in 2018

ConnectiCare has announced its participation in Connecticut's Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) exchange, offered through Access Health CT, in 2018.

FARMINGTON, CT (October 24, 2017) – ConnectiCare has announced its participation in Connecticut’s Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) exchange, offered through Access Health CT, in 2018.

We are pleased to offer plans to small businesses statewide through Access Health CT,” said Eric Galvin, President and Chief Operating Officer at ConnectiCare. “We are Connecticut’s local health plan and remain committed to the state and serving our members – because we are serving our families, friends and neighbors.

Through the state’s SHOP exchange, Access Health CT offers health insurance options to employers with 50 or fewer full-time employees. In 2017, there was only one insurance carrier offering plans through the SHOP exchange.

“We’re excited to have ConnectiCare on board as another option for small businesses to provide healthcare coverage for their employees in 2018,” said Jim Wadleigh, CEO at Access Health CT. Offering a variety of coverage options goes a long way in keeping our small businesses more productive, happier and healthier.”

To learn more about Access Health CT’s small business exchange, click here.
For more information on ConnectiCare’s health insurance plan options, visit

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About ConnectiCare

ConnectiCare is a leading health plan in the state of Connecticut. ConnectiCare’s mission is to make it easy for members to get the care they need. A local company for over 35 years, ConnectiCare has a full range of products and services for businesses, municipalities, individuals and those who are Medicare-eligible. A subsidiary of EmblemHealth, ConnectiCare leads the individual and small group markets in the state, and is ranked among the top commercial health plans in the nation, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance. For more information, visit To learn about ConnectiCare’s health insurance plans, visit

About Access Health CT

Access Health CT (AHCT), Connecticut’s official health insurance marketplace, is a quasi-public agency created by the Connecticut legislature in 2011 to satisfy requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act. AHCT’s mission is to increase the number of insured residents in Connecticut, promote health, lower costs, and eliminate health disparities. Connecticut residents and small business owners can compare and enroll in health care coverage and apply for tax credits for individuals through AHCT. Access Health CT partners with the CT Department of Social Services in HUSKY Health eligibility and enrollment. For more information, please visit, like us on Facebook at and follow us on Twitter @AccessHealthCT.

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Popular job search and review site Glassdoor has named strategic consulting firm Bain & Company the globe’s best place to work. Consultancy.in interacted with Karan Singh, the Managing Partner of Bain & Company's India offices, and several other India-based ‘Bainies’ to hash out what makes the company such a great employer.

The analysis by Glassdoor takes into account its database of 45 million company reviews provided by current and former workers, who (anonymously) comment on their jobs, rating key workplace attributes like compensation, company culture, senior management, and work-life balance. Of all organisations listed on Glassdoor – nearly 800,000 companies globally have received reviews on the platform – the firm’s researchers found that across North America (US, Canada), Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, UK), and Asia-Pacific (Australia, India, New Zealand), Bain & Company earned the highest average employee review score.

Globally, Bain & Company has 8,000 employees. The consultancy was founded in 1973 by William Bain Junior, and has since established itself as one of the world’s largest and most prestigious strategy consulting firms – alongside 'Big Three' rivals McKinsey and BCG (collectively known as the 'MBBs'). Headquartered in Boston, Bain has 57 offices in 36 countries, of which three are in India: New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

Bain & Company’s strong double-digit growth over the last 26 years hasn’t conflicted with its emphasis on being a great workplace. The firm knows from internal research that employee engagement and commitment are essential for workplace happiness and productivity – positively impacting financial performance. Also, Bain works with the top talent in the market, so creating an attractive culture is key to attracting and retaining some of the brightest minds in the business world.

Why Bain & Company ranks as a top employer in India

Commenting on the importance of workplace culture, Karan Singh, who leads Bain’s Indian operations, said, “At Bain, we have a strong belief in a workplace environment that is conducive to creating holistic, well-rounded career development opportunities for all our employees.”

Singh is therefore delighted that the firm’s focus on top-tier workplace dynamics is continually commended by the most important judges: its own employees. “It is heartening to be ranked at the top of the Glassdoor Best Places to Work list again this year,” he relates. “To be able to provide this while delivering high-impact, relevant solutions to our clients is indeed an outcome we take pride in.”

In the US, Bain ranked top of all companies, including the likes of tech juggernauts Facebook and Google. The feat in the US came one year after Bain achieved the same recognition in two European markets: Germany and the Netherlands. In the UK, Bain came second overall – just behind water utility Anglian Water – though it still claimed the title of being the UK’s top-ranked consulting firm.

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While Glassdoor did not release a specific Best Places to Work list for India, Bain nonetheless averaged a stellar score of 4.8 out of 5. Employees consistently lauded the firm’s supportive environment, its excellent professional development opportunities, its strong perks (externships, events, etc.) and compensation/benefits. In a bid shed some more light on why Bain is so beloved among its employees, Consultancy.in spoke with five Bain workers, affectionately called ‘Bainies’ (not unlike Yalies from Yale).

Delhi-based Senior Partner Parijat Ghosh – who is also VP HR – points to the firm’s high performance culture as core part of giving clients the results they expect. “At Bain & Company, it has been our abiding belief that a critical driver of our success in meeting our clients’ expectations and delivering high impact solutions, has been our focus on a high-performance culture in a supportive work environment for our employees.” According to Ghosh, the firm has also maintained a strong focus on diversity and balanced personal and professional development to create a top workplace.

Megha Chawla, Partner and leader of Woman at Bain (WAB) in India, echoes her colleague’s emphasis on an effective and supportive workplace culture. “We take great pride in our culture, which is rare blend of high performance in a highly supportive environment. Every incoming ‘Bainie’ is selected on the basis of not just rigorous problem solving skills, but also their intellectual curiosity, teaming abilities, and the conviction that they will reinforce and further build on this unique culture.”

“At Bain, we have a strong belief in a workplace environment that is conducive to creating holistic, well-rounded career development opportunities for all our employees.”
– Karan Singh, Managing Partner of Bain & Company India

Thus, at Bain, smart and effective people are surrounded by other smart and effective people. Their teams don’t have to worry about weak links derailing a project, causing stress and issues for project teams (and clients). “What makes our culture unique is a bunch of really smart people working together in a very down-to-earth and friendly environment, always willing to help each other,” added Delhi-based Partner Deepak Jain.  “Each one of us truly believes and exemplifies the principle – a Bainie never lets another Bainie fail.” Jain was recently ranked a Fortune India ’40 under 40.’

Mumbai-based Partner Sriwatsan Krishnan echoed the appraisal of a supportive environment – a workplace of friends, despite the high-stakes cut-throat image of management consulting. “Bain’s unique culture is exemplified in a commitment to creating a sustainable, supportive, and fun work environment despite operating in a market with demanding and challenging clients who force us to up our game every-day."

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The endeavor is to create a workplace filled with employees who are more than colleagues, but friends and mentors – effectively creating an atmosphere where everyone wants to come to work every day not only because they work on challenging and complex problems, but also because they have an immense amount of fun during the good times and get adequate support during the tough times – that’s unique,” Krishnan added.

Bengaluru-based Partner Lalit Reddy, meanwhile, highlighted the company’s leading capability in professional development. “Consulting is a unique career among professional services – because more than any other one – it has to be learned ‘on the job.’ This isn’t a job that is disproportionately quantitative or qualitative – it is a unique combination of both. Therefore, the only way people get good at this is through apprenticeship.

“It is for this reason that Bain excels and stands out in the field – we have a culture where folks know each other at a deep, personal level,” Reddy added. “The supportive atmosphere encourages people to take risks frequently and ask for help whenever they need it. This has been a huge driver of our success.”


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Populations in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19. Across the globe, borders have shut, national emergencies have been declared and restrictions in the movement of people and goods have been enforced. Amidst these challenging conditions, working to deliver positive change, promoting sustainable consumption and maintaining a sense of community is more essential than ever.

Green Action Week (GAW) is a global campaign by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) which aims to promote sustainable consumption. In this blog, we explore three major themes of GAW 2020 based on the campaign plans of our members, as countries work to mitigate the long-term impact of the pandemic on the economy, human health and society.

1. Promoting Healthy, Sustainable Diets

Malnutrition is a public health problem as recognised by The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025. Access to nutritious, safe and sustainable food is essential. Bénin Sante et Survie du Consommateur (BSSC)’s awareness campaign aims to improve the nutritional status of children through promoting balanced diets and local food resources with high nutritional value. In Indonesia, Yogyakarta Consumers Institute (YCI) is also highlighting the importance of using local products, by encouraging urban consumers to jointly cultivate organic vegetables and fish to meet their own needs and for sale to others.

In Kenya and Yemen, members have highlighted that consumers largely lack awareness of sustainable food products. To mitigate this problem, the Kenya Consumer Organisation (KCO) is organising exhibitions showcasing sustainable goods and services and demonstrate the excellent nutritional levels of indigenous vegetables to encourage behaviour change. Yemen Association for Consumer Protection (YACP)’s project will also aim to increase awareness amongst Yemeni consumers by allowing communities to participate in practical activities to implement food safety measures.

2. Waste Reduction

Excessive levels of consumption are leading to unsustainable living. Creative collaborative actions are needed to reduce waste. Consumer Unity and Trust (CUTS) in Ghana and Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG) in India are both centring their projects around women: CUTS will encourage dialogue among various actors and explore different technologies to reduce waste and CAG’s project will establish sharing groups and train women from the local community on the importance of recycling and reusing resources.

The circular economy is important for reducing waste. A Green Alliance report published in 2019 assumes that in England, a more circular economy could cut plastic arisings from households by half compared to the ‘high recycling’ scenario, while increasing the amount of plastic collected by nearly 60 per cent compared to business as usual. Colectivo Elcologista Jalisco (CEJ) will strive to reduce waste in Mexico by promoting circular economy practices through giving consumers clear information on waste and labelling. This project will also promote the key consumer rights of information and education to support sustainable consumption.

In the context of the coronavirus pandemic,  the increasing amount of plastic waste is a stark reminder that more must be done to combat plastic pollution. In Lebanon, the majority of consumers buy plastic gallon packages for drinking water. Consumers Lebanon (CL)’s ‘One Seed, One Community’ project aims to reduce plastic waste at the household level by collecting the used plastic gallon packages, cleaning them, and distributing them to other groups with seeds and seedlings inside. They will provide households with guidelines on how to cut the use of the gallon packages and additionally will distribute seeds and seedlings for edible vegetables and herbs. Those who receive seeds and seedlings will be traced by a serial number and if interested, the donors of their seeds can follow up on the growth of the plants in their donated gallon packages via social media. This will create a sharing community and help connect people who may have felt isolated as a consequence of the Covid-19 lockdown.

3. Health and hygiene

Unhealthy local environments affect both human and planetary health.  The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report published in 2017 states that the consumption of unsafe water impairs human health and untreated sewage can contaminate drinking-water supplies and the environment, creating a heavy burden on communities. Improved access to sanitation, clean water and basic levels of hygiene therefore ensure happier, healthier and more productive communities. In the populous neighbourhoods of the Bamako District in Mali, many women and girls do not have access to appropriate sanitation. Regroupement pour la Défense des Consommateurs du Mali (REDECOMA) will educate consumers on the importance of sanitation and establish a sharing platform for tools to improve sanitation facilities.

The Sudanese Consumer Protection Society (SCPS) in Sudan and Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) in India will promote a local healthy environment by creating a sense of community amongst primary school-aged children. SCPS will address overcrowding in schools and a shortage and absence of sanitation facilities by building on its 2019 success, creating a further 8 eco-schools in another 8 primary schools. In India, CERC will create a physical sharing platform to share provisions and encourage the use of proper sanitation tools amongst local communities, especially amongst primary school-aged children. The aim is to inspire school students and stimulate greater care for the local environment.

We are excited to celebrate the new ideas, insight and innovations of our members that will deliver impact and progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.

Green Action Week will take place from 28th September to 4th October 2020. Stay tuned with updates on the member projects and join us by using #GreenActionWeek on Twitter and Facebook. We would also love to hear updates about your campaigns or actions you are taking to promote sustainable consumption in your country or region.


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