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Has Washington’s approach to manufacturing incentives really changed?
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. manufacturing sector has long relied on government support to strengthen domestic supply chains and improve its competitive positioning globally. The Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration recently explored that support in its Manufacturing Incentives Overview report.
Do you need a chief manufacturing officer?
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Manufacturing added approximately $3 trillion to the U.S. economy in the first quarter of 2026, underscoring the sector’s continued importance to economic growth, jobs and competitiveness. Yet a specific executive role responsible for manufacturing has not necessarily kept pace with the sector’s expanding strategic importance.
Has Washington’s approach to manufacturing incentives really changed?
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. manufacturing sector has long relied on government support to strengthen domestic supply chains and improve its competitive positioning globally. The Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration recently explored that support in its Manufacturing Incentives Overview report.
How to navigate background screening for the manufacturing workforce Original
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The need to bring more workers into manufacturing roles continues to grow, while at the same time background screening is becoming increasingly complex for employers. Despite the U.S. economy losing 23,000 jobs last month, employment in manufacturing didn’t see much change according to theBureau of Labor Statistics, underscoring the sector's persistent demand for talent.
Manufacturers balance costs, inventory amid uncertain rate environment
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As manufacturers move into the second half of 2026, they continue to navigate a complex mix of interest rates, inventory decisions, energy volatility and geopolitical uncertainty. While inflation accelerated to 4.2% year over year in May, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report, executives and advisors say companies are still planning investments to help them compete beyond 2026.
Manufacturers balance costs, inventory amid uncertain rate environment Original
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As manufacturers move into the second half of 2026, they continue to navigate a complex mix of interest rates, inventory decisions, energy volatility and geopolitical uncertainty. While inflation accelerated to 4.2% year over year in May, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report, executives and advisors say companies are still planning investments to help them compete beyond 2026.
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Agentic AI and robotics are among the most transformative opportunities for efficiency gains in modern manufacturing. But as automation scales, it raises a question that may not be top of mind for manufacturers: What are the energy costs?
Don't miss tomorrow's Manufacturing industry news
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Agentic AI and robotics are among the most transformative opportunities for efficiency gains in modern manufacturing. But as automation scales, it raises a question that may not be top of mind for manufacturers: What are the energy costs?
Can reshoring and onshoring deliver manufacturing sustainability benefits?
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. U.S. sustainability policy may have shifted, but some manufacturers are still finding a faster path to climate, governance and workforce gains by investing in domestic production.
Can reshoring deliver manufacturing sustainability benefits? Original
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. U.S. sustainability policy may have shifted, but some manufacturers are still finding a faster path to climate, governance and workforce gains by investing in domestic production.
OpenAI Risk Use Case: From The Future of Tech to The Future of Power
Let’s look at the OpenAI situation- and AI more broadly - from a risk lens. AI can yield opportunities like predicting climate trends and supporting higher productivity at work. AI can yield risks like biased programming. And now an emerging risk we may not have seen coming - governance risk. Are investors and users aware of what the convergence of these risks looks like? Who might hold the power on the other side of this?
The Value Add of Chief Sustainability Officers — Keesa Schreane
-Deloitte, “The future of the Chief Sustainability Officer Sense-maker in chief” Companies want their c-suite executives to add strategic value.
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The Impact of “Silent Sabotage” on Corporate Culture — Keesa Schreane
Negative workplace behaviors can result in trauma and create health and wellbeing issues. Multiple negative behaviors exist, but here, I’m spotlighting what I call 'Silent Sabotage.' Premise: A senior leader in a firm 'complains' about the employee to other management and the employee's colleagues. It's 'silent' because employee may not hear from others about the sabotage, and the leader neither addresses concern with employee directly, nor employee's manager directly.
The Most Beneficial Ingredient for Innovation, Stakeholder Relationships, and Investments — Keesa Schreane
Artificial Intelligence, climate, risk, and sustainability. If you’re a corporate leader - manager, individual contributor, senior executive, or board member- these are all topics you’re likely to consider as part of your mid-year business strategy review. In executing mid-year plans, remember the one thing that undergirds those business themes - corporate culture.
Private Markets and Sustainability — Keesa Schreane
Private market participants may see a direct benefit from having more hands-on and direct opportunities around sustainable investing. We recently sat down with Blythe Clark, Director, ESG Advisors and she described the different level of control a private equity player has when it comes to sustainability. “As an asset manager in private equity, you own the company and you have boots on the ground, so to speak. So it's a little more hands-on than if you own a stock or a bond.
There May Finally Be Hope for Environmental and Climate Justice. Can We Capitalize on It?
This work is vast. But success would build a more inclusive, just and sustainable economy and society — shaped by our shared opportunities rather than our risks, by prosperity rather than poverty, of positivity over negativity. The scales of climate and environmental justice have long been weighed down by the enormity of our challenges.
Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The manner in which corporations are run globally is over. The author examines how corporations worldwide have failed when it comes to inclusion and gender equality and provides ideas on how businesses can address these issues. This book will discuss the following: - Identify behaviors to avoid, including dangerous activities pre-Covid-19 corporate America was already presenting to employees' well-being and productivity.
FSA Credential was issued by Value Reporting Foundation to Keesa Schreane.
The FSA Credential is awarded to candidates who have passed Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting Level I and Level II exams. FSA Credential-holders are trailblazers who are setting the standard for professional expertise when it comes to identifying, managing, and analyzing material sustainability information. They can apply their expertise to investment analysis, corporate management, and/or consulting. Additional Details
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER
Melted glaciers, decimated forests, and extinct wildlife species are the result of climate change. Consuming and investing sustainably can help foster progress toward reversing some of those catastrophes — but businesses can do more than they’re doing.
Sustainable Business and Black Lives Matter
What initiatives can the sustainable business movement introduce to help defeat environmental injustice and improve the lives of people in underserved and historically marginalized communities? In sustainable business and investing discussions, we need to understand who is most impacted, and to prioritize and amplify their voices.
Mental Health & Top Performance in the Workplace
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Keesa Scheane, Director of Partner Management Sales & Account Management, shines a spotlight on fostering good mental health and top performance in today’s changing workplace. Workplace microaggressions may not pose a threat to our physical health, but they can threaten our mental health – and our livelihoods. Support, kindness, respect, and compassion shouldn’t be the exception if we want to foster good mental health for everybody in the workplace.
Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast: Season One Recap
This season on the Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast, our host Keesa Schreane spoke with innovative business leaders from a range of diverse industries to explore the role of ESG in modern organizations today – and we’re inviting our readers to take a listen. Once considered off-market externalities, factors such as climate change and inequality have transformed into market issues. And more than ever, clients want to see their money invested responsibly.
Decarbonization investment strategies
How does decarbonization play into the investment strategies of financial players today? And how do these strategies differ across Europe and the U.S.? This week on the Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast, we speak to Bridgit Realmuto LaPerla – the co-author of Decarbonization Factors, a study from Harvard Business School and State Street Associates – to learn about the factors driving sustainable investment forward. Climate change is impacting how investors manage their portfolios.
ESG: Intersectionality, interdependence & business
Today, many cultural commentators view the world through the lens of intersectionality and interconnectedness – the idea that every person has a range of attributes (race, gender, education, etc.) that to varying degrees determine their relationship to others in society, and their status within various groups. In one group, race might be more important. In another, religion could be the crucial factor. Business and creating a more sustainable future are interconnected concepts.
Excuse Me Miss Prospecting Only Works for Jay-Z
By Keesa Schreane for Startup Grind Courting, also known as courtship, is the pursuit of a thing one deeply desires. To be effective one must strategize and move to sway another person into one’s way of thinking. The way we kick off a courtship is as unique as the person we’re courting.
Moving From ‘What Is’ To ‘What Is Possible’: The Future of Service to Others
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