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Empowering Women Through Financial Education
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June 11, 2024
We often assume that women, like men, are fully equipped and have the financial savvy to plan their personal and business finances. However, various studies have observed the reality that there is a gender gap in financial literacy that persists globally, and which poses challenges...
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Be Careful What You Wish For (Thoughts on AI)
MAPping the Future
June 10, 2024
“Regulate AI!” I often hear this call from well-meaning crusaders who fear that artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that was developed to help man, might end up controlling him. Strangely, the present screams for regulation worry me as much as the evils that AI can...
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A Plastic-Free Future
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June 4, 2024
A plastic-free future really starts with us — in our homes, in our place of work, and wherever we conduct business like stores and factories. We have already read about plastic leaching into our groundwater, and we hope for plastic-free fish and food, in general. What...
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Philippines Rising (Redux)
MAPping the Future
June 3, 2024
There is electricity in the seeming rarefied air of the Stanford University campus. Two mantras always come to mind as I walk in its expansive campus with verdant trees and temperate weather. One is, “Move fast and break things.” Serving as a vital cog in...
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Optimize and Protect Your Business: Emerging Strategies in Managing AI and Cyber Risks
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May 29, 2024
Panel Discussion on AI (L-R) MAP ICT Committee Co-Vice Chair TEDDY SUMULONG; IBM Consulting CTO for Hybrid Cloud Services in ASEAN and Distinguished Engineer SURESH ESWARAN; PWC New Zealand Partner and Asia Pacific Leader in Generative AI SCOTT MCLIVER; and Tableau Enterprise Account Executive CHARLES...
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Focus on Growth amid Uncertainty and Disruption
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May 28, 2024
We all know the issues of the day: persistent inflation that affects customer spending, new technologies that disrupt how business gets done and how customers interact with brands, new products and services from new competitors, and a changing country demographic that challenges how we hire...
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Investing in the Earth’s Heat
MAPping the Future
May 27, 2024
The race to find clean and sustainable energy has never been more relevant for the country than it is today. In the first quarter of 2024, the Philippines posted an economic growth of 5.7 percent. At the current rate we are going, it is projected...
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How Your Credit Score Affects Your Business Loan
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May 21, 2024
For Filipino small and medium enterprises (SMEs), access to financing remains one of the biggest challenges when trying to grow their business. Everything costs money — from labor to day-to-day operations — and your working capital can quickly dry up with one cash flow gap...
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PH-Lithuania Collab in Future-Proof Tech, Economic Growth
MAPping the Future
May 20, 2024
The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) has been pushing consistently for vital policy reforms to improve the global competitiveness of the Philippines and enable a sustainable business environment for both local and foreign investors. Leveraging the visit of the Lithuanian business delegation —headed by...
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