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Pick winners and make impactful investment decisions
11 April 2025 • by Jim Pulcrano in Finance • 2 min read • 
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IMD's Jim Pulcrano interviews Ruchita Sinha, General Partner of venture capital firm AV8 Ventures, and explores her approach to early-stage investing. ...
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Join Mariana Sarmiento of Terrasos and Adrian Dellecker, a Senior Researcher at IMD, as they discuss commercial prospects in environmental innovation and voluntary biodiversity credits....
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IMD President David Bach goes from the global to the personal with one of the world’s most prominent bankers....
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