Before becoming the largest furniture retailer in the world, then 17-year old Ingvar Kamprad started IKEA as a mail-order sales business in 1943. The Swedish […]
Author Archives: Mathew Emmanuel Pineda
Contributions and Legacy of Yuan Longping: The Father of Hybrid Rice
Nature, one of the leading multidisciplinary science journals, describes him as a “crop scientist whose high-yield hybrid rice fed billions.” True enough, for his contributions […]
Environmental Strategy of Apple: Key Sustainability Initiatives
Although the economic value and contributions of the consumer electronics industry and technology companies are undeniable, their impacts on the environment are as incontestable. For […]
Corporate Social Responsibility Program of Apple
Steve Jobs enforced several tenets that differentiated Apple from other technology companies. For example, when he returned to the company in 1997, one of his […]
What is Regenerative Design: Principles, Applications, Pros, and Cons
Regenerative design is fundamentally an approach to design that equips a particular system with the capacity to restore, renew, or revitalize its own sources of […]
Circular Economy: Principles, Benefits, and Challenges
A circular economy is a proposed economic system, as well as a specific model of production and consumption, that aims to reduce or eliminate waste […]
Subscription Business Model: Advantages and Disadvantages
A subscription business model or a subscription-based model is a business model for generating revenues in which a business organization sells a product or service […]
Climate Emergency Declaration
Several governments, scientists, climate activists, and media organizations around the world have declared a climate emergency to underscore further the need to tackle climate change […]
Sub-6 GHz 5G versus mmWave 5G: The Difference
The sub-6 GHz frequency bands and the millimeter wave or mmWave spectrum are two frequency specifications defined and allocated for 5G technology. Fundamentally, the entire […]
Explainer: Venture Capital and Venture Capitalists
Venture capital is a type of private equity financing and seed funding option provided by investors to startups and small businesses with limited access to […]
