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Sea levels could be around a meter (3.3 feet) higher and the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer by 2100, the UN’s climate science committee has concluded.

Sea-level fears: This is 10 centimeters  (3.9 inches) higher than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted six years ago. The change is because Antarctica is melting faster than expected. The revised estimate could be hugely significant to the 600 million people around the world who live less than 10 meters above sea level. It also suggests that countries urgently need to start spending money to shore up sea defenses, as the Global Commission on Adaptation recently warned.

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The world’s oceans have long helped to stave off climate change by absorbing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that is changing, with devastating consequences for humanity in the coming decades, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations.

It’s official. Adam Neumann is stepping down as CEO of WeWork, adding another chapter to the great drama of Silicon Valley and once again highlighting one of its essential challenges: How do you manage and harness a genius?

There’s a reason why Amazon and Spotify consistently top the charts as two of the most innovative companies year after year. In today’s unpredictable and rapidly changing digital era, both businesses have managed to stay agile and avoid failure. Amazon adapted to cloud-based software, while Spotify redefined streaming services with data-backed personalized playlists. 

Family offices are planning to increase their exposure to private equity — the second biggest allocation in their portfolios — amid doubts that hedge funds can protect their wealth in a downturn, according to UBS.

Wealthy families aren’t showing hedge funds much love, favoring other alternative assets amid concerns of a possible recession next year, according to UBS Group’s survey of family offices globally.

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Scientists need to work more closely with entrepreneurs and financiers to ensure groundbreaking research in Europe can be turned into successful business opportunities, according to the recently appointed chair of the European Innovation Council’s pilot advisory board.

Image: Europe publishes more AI research papers than the US or China but turning research into a business remains a challenge. Image credit - ITU Pictures, licensed under CC BY 2.0

If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and probably not working on an idea that’s worth doing. The challenge in to know when and how to ask for help, and not let bravado and ego mask anxieties. The best people know when they don’t know and know how to find the right help.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network Brian Tracy encourages the practice of dreaming big. He points out if other people have achieved your dream, then you can, too. 

Tracy encourages asking yourself the question, What it is I have been put on Earth to do? The answer will help you do what you really want to do with your life. An ability to set goals and create plans to accomplish these goals is what Tracy calls, the "master plan" of success. 

China is now the largest automobile market in the world. In 2018, 23.7 million new light vehicles were sold in China, compared to the 17.3 million sold in the United States. During the Great Recession, China displaced the US, which had been the world’s leading car market since the invention of the automobile.

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Humans were not around to see Antarctica in the good times, tens of millions of years ago, when it was home to palms and baobab trees, reptiles and marsupials. It had some of the same mountains it has today, some of the same valleys and inlets. But it didn’t have the same address.

Image: Melt A massive chunk of free-floating sea ice is seen from above during NASA’s IceBridge mission in November 2017. A massive chunk of free-floating sea ice is seen from above during NASA’s IceBridge mission in November 2017. Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos for TIME

The realm of an entrepreneur is all about change, but in my experience as a mentor to business founders, I hear too much about incremental change, and not enough about revolutionary change. Adding a couple of new features to Facebook, and calling it something new, may seem less risky, but creating a whole new industry, such as smartphones, has far more potential.

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This program helps executives understand how continuous improvement strategies, sustained over a long period of time, affect core business metrics and business development strategy and contribute to the success of the organization. This course equips managers with a fundamental understanding of how visual management—as well as their own approach to management—can be improved to create competitive advantage.

After a generation spent shaping the growth and development of biopharma clusters, Alexandria Real Estate Equities executive chairman and founder Joel Marcus recently spoke publicly about what will most likely drive the upcoming generation of hubs for biopharma and other emerging life sciences.

Seed money or seed capital plays a crucial role when it comes to translating an idea to a business. Not just this, when to raise seed funding is significant enough to define the health of the business. But first, let’s address why seed funding is so important.

While many cities in the South had a lot more people move in than leave over the last decade, other parts of the country have been less lucky.

Using data from the Census Bureau's Population Estimates program, we found the US metropolitan areas with the most negative net migration between 2010 and 2018, adjusted by the size of the 2010 metro area population.

Most logo changes by big brands are subtle.

Think Coca-Cola — since the 1880s, its logo design has barely evolved. The Coca-Cola logo is ubiquitous and consistent, and it pays off: Coca-Cola is widely regarded as the most recognized brand worldwide.

Some, however, are so drastic that they look as if they've been created for completely different companies. Yahoo!, for one, unveiled a new logo on Monday, scrapping the all-caps design for a lower-case look.

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IN THE CITY of Cambridge, the learning that begins anew this time of the year goes beyond textbooks, exams, and the classroom itself. That’s because of the Cambridge Public School (CPS) system’s unique and abundant partnerships with the city’s business community and institutions, partnerships that provide students with opportunities to apply their teachers’ lessons in real-world environments through hands-on programs and interactions with professionals in the knowledge economy.

It seems like everybody and her best friend wants to be an entrepreneur today. Whether we’re talking coding for six-year-olds, building leadership skills in tweens, or a 19-year-old with a staff of 20 developers, the focus on finding the next Musk, Zuckerberg or, closer to home, Sheikha and Olsson, is relentless.  

In the past two decades, cities like New York and San Francisco have turned into elitist playgrounds for the rich. What can the famed urbanist behind the Creative Class predict about the future of Philly?

Image: Richard Florida is the first Philadelphia Fellow. Photograph by Daria Malysheva