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The environmental, social and governance landscape can be confusing.With evolving regulations, geopolitical challenges, and various frameworks to navigate, keeping pace with it all and developing an ESG strategy that satisfies stakeholders is no small feat for many businesses — but for accounting firms, these challenges can spell opportunity.With expertise in regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and internal controls, accounting firms are ideally positioned to help clients ensure data quality, maneuver the complex ESG frameworks, and provide independent assurance. These are among the services in need as ESG-related strategies increasingly shift from a voluntary effort to a business imperative.In fact, a survey…

Supatman – stock.adobe.com Accounting firms looking to provide ESG reporting and audit services may wonder about the skill sets and investments required in an evolving ESG environment. For Debbie Biddle-Castillo, risk advisory principal and ESG advisory leader at Top 10 Firm Baker Tilly, carbon accounting and climate risk are key.”On the reporting side of things, the really key skill sets that are being driven right by the state regulations are carbon accounting and climate risk. Those are both key components of the California Climate Act. They are key components of other state-level acts that we see coming down the pike.…

BYD shares fell 3% in Hong Kong on Monday after a report that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway had sold the last of its stake in the Chinese EV maker.The famed investor’s company likely made around $7 billion, or 30 times its money, from the 16-year investment, an analysis by Business Insider found.Buffett’s conglomerate purchased the stake through its Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary, which revealed in its first-quarter report this year that it had exited the position.Berkshire confirmed the exit to CNBC, which first reported the disclosure over the weekend. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from…

Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPfizer on Monday said it would buy weight loss drugmaker Metsera in an up to $7.3 billion deal, including future payments, as it scrambles to win a slice in the booming obesity drug market. Pfizer said it will pay an initial $47.50 a share in cash for Metsera, a nearly 43% premium to the biotech company’s Friday’s closing price of $33.32. That gives the deal an enterprise value of $4.9 billion. The pact also includes a contingent value right worth up to $22.50 a share based on potential clinical and regulatory achievements for…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Darren Litt, cofounder and CEO of Hiya. It has been edited for length and clarity.Like many parents, I gave my daughters multivitamins when they were young. But I worried that the vitamins were just candy in disguise, packed with sugar, dyes, and ingredients that I couldn’t pronounce. When the girls were 5 and 6, I decided to create a better product for them, and all kids.This wasn’t my first foray into entrepreneurship. I had started tech companies in the past, beginning with a tutoring company when I was in college. I…

A Build-A-Bear Workshop in Herald Square, New York on Sept. 16, 2025. Laya Neelakandan | CNBCFor 26-year-old Cammie Craycroft’s friends, the perfect birthday activity this summer was a group trip to Build-A-Bear Workshop.Craycroft said she and her friends grew up going to the retailer, which is known for its experiential shopping product where customers can choose their stuffed animal and then pick its outfits, accessories and more.”Build-A-Bear means a lot to me. I had so many birthday parties at Build-A-Bear,” Craycroft told CNBC. “It really is a nostalgic place, and I have so many happy memories there.”The company has recently…

Hiring managers may consider a long list of criteria when interviewing candidates — but IBM executive Corinne Sklar is laser-focused on one trait.”I’m looking for people who are not going to ask for permission; they’re going to drive their strategy,” Sklar told Business Insider at Monday.com’s Elevate event on Wednesday.Prior to joining IBM, Sklar was the chief marketing officer of Bluewolf, an IT service and consulting company that IBM acquired in 2016. The vice president and managing director of Salesforce at IBM said she’s hired thousands of employees throughout her career and has one go-to question she asks candidates.”The one…

In the span of less than two years, Core Scientific went from a bankrupt crypto mining company to a $9 billion acquisition target. How? By reinventing itself as an upstart player in the artificial intelligence-driven data center craze.Only now, one of the company’s largest shareholders is urging other investors to vote down the deal — arguing that $9 billion isn’t nearly enough.While a takeover battle between little-known data center firms might seem like an industry footnote, it speaks volumes about the vast infrastructure arms race taking place behind the AI boom.Data centers provide the computing and storage necessary for AI,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ebony Belhumeur, the 38-year-old founder of DappleAi. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in LA. My parents were in and out of jail when I was growing up, and it wasn’t an easy childhood, but I wouldn’t trade it.I got into a magnet program, which is a school with a specialized curriculum that helps foster a diverse student population. I was surrounded by kids from a completely different cultural and socioeconomic world. It was a grind, but it also showed me what was possible.Now, I live…

Two years after graduating at the top of her class in college, Amisha Datta could not believe she’d lost $4,300 in a job scam.It wasn’t just her 4.0 GPA that made her think she was impervious to fraudsters. It was also because the scam started when Datta, now 26, did what she’s done dozens of times and what millions of people do daily: She applied to a job on LinkedIn.Brenda Smith can relate all too well. The 56-year-old, who holds a master’s degree and works in higher education, lost roughly $15,000 in a job scam that also began on LinkedIn.Both…