Corporate Landing

Reuters: Wealth

• To train more workers, companies turn to virtual reality
  The future of employee training involves no embarrassing role-playing in front of new colleagues or boring web modules which take an hour each to click through.
• Which company just hit $1 trillion? Google it.
  As Google-parent Alphabet Inc became on Thursday the fourth U.S. company to top a market value of more than $1 trillion, some funds holding its shares are wondering whether now is the time to cash in...
• 'Green is good.' Is Wall Street's new motto sustainable?
  If you have gone to Goldman Sachs Group Inc's internet home page since mid-December, it would be reasonable to wonder if you had stumbled into some kind of parallel universe.
• Activist hedge funds stepped up calls for asset sales and spin-offs in 2019: data
  Hedge funds that push for change at corporations stepped up their demands for asset spin-offs and sales last year, making them part of nearly half of all activist investor campaigns waged in 2019,...
• ValueAct's Ubben cheers BlackRock's new stance on climate change
  Investor Jeffrey Ubben, already betting there is money to be made from coaxing corporations into being better citizens, gained an ally on Tuesday when BlackRock Inc chief Laurence Fink told companies...