With the core ERP platform’s features and other available add-on modules, NetSuite is one of the most robust CRM options we reviewed. It allows businesses to support the entire customer life cycle, from lead generation to fulfillment to renewal. Although most CRM platforms we reviewed offer hundreds, or even thousands, of third-party software integrations, NetSuite takes that a step further by handling everything in-house with native integrations. These add-on modules support a comprehensive workflow via a central data source that’s accessible to all authorized users at any time from a computer or mobile device.

NetSuite on Wednesday set the initial price of its stock at US$26, greatly exceeding its original estimate. The company is selling 6.2 million shares of stock. It said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the proceeds from the sale would net it $151.9 million after expenses. NetSuite, which sells a line of hosted business software, company initially set the suggested price range for its stock at $13 to $16, and subsequently raised it to $16 to $19 and then $19 to $22. The stock is now trading on New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "N." After rising to $39.01, shares had dropped to $25.76 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.The company set the price by running an online "Dutch" auction, in the same fashion of search giant Google, instead of having underwriters set the price. Scott Sweet, managing director of IPOboutique.com, a firm that tracks the IPO market and offers investment advice, said NetSuite is greatly overvalued as a result of the auction. "Once again...

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The Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act (MRRA), which passed the Legislature earlier this year and could take effect in as little as two years, would allow some incarcerated people to trim 17% off their sentences if they satisfactorily follow individualized rehabilitation plans. It's a dramatic but praiseworthy shift away from a largely punitive, one-size-fits-all approach to corrections.

The state Department of Corrections (DOC) recognized that prison time isn't just a punishment — it's also an opportunity for intervention. Instead of expecting incarcerated people to sit and wait for the years to pass them by, the MRRA empowers the agency to focus on rehabilitation and programming that should help the newly released integrate back into their communities.

While the plan is still in development, some estimate it could apply to around 7,400 people who are currently incarcerated in Minnesota.

"We know 95% of the people in our prisons are going to come out into neighborhoods across our state," DOC Commissioner Paul Schnell told editorial writers. "We want to make sure we're really putting attention, time and focus on what happens while somebody's involved with this system."

Those eligible to participate will receive plans tailored to their needs that may include substance abuse treatment, mental health counseling, education or vocational training. This individualized approach is important, as it not only remedies the inadequate one-size-fits-all approach to corrections, but also incentivizes participation in programming and skill development.

Minnesota is among the minority of states that uses determinate sentencing. Because of this, sentence lengths are definite: No matter how well you act in prison, you'll serve the same amount of time as someone who acts out and violates rules.

"You and I each have a plan. You work your plan; you do well. I, on the other hand, don't. I fight; I refuse to participate in programs. Today, we'd walk out of prison the exact same day — it doesn't matter that you did well," Schnell said.

Once the MRRA takes effect, however, prisoners who demonstrate investment in their personal growth could be rewarded by way of a reduced sentence and supervision period. While some Republican lawmakers have branded the program a "get out of jail free card," those who do not show improvement would serve their time as usual.

The MRRA wouldn't just benefit inmates — incentivizing participation in programming would Boost public safety. The Challenge Incarceration Program (CIP), a similar program for nonviolent offenders that includes education, substance abuse programming and rigorous exercise, reduced participants' chances of reincarceration by 35%, and reoffending with a felony offense by 32%.

The MRRA also stands to save the state money — incarceration is expensive, and allowing individuals who have demonstrated personal growth to be released early could deliver the agency more financial room to invest in initiatives like victim support services. The CIP saved the DOC around $4,600 per participant, and officials hope to see similar savings with the MRRA. Those savings would then be split equally across four areas: victim support services, community supervision services, crime prevention initiatives and the state's general fund.

"The DOC's annual budget now is right around $1 billion a year," Schnell said. For that sum, he continued, "I would think — I don't care who you are, what side of the aisle you're on — you would want to produce the best outcomes possible, period."

The program could also increase safety in prisons. Idleness in prison increases the risk for frequent and violent misconduct, according to the DOC. That creates unsafe conditions for both inmates and correctional staff. Incentivizing participation in programming reduces idleness and could mitigate some of these conditions.

While only nonviolent offenders are eligible for the CIP, one of the only disqualifying factors from the MRRA is serving a life sentence. But Schnell is hopeful individualized rehabilitation programming could even benefit those who have committed more serious offenses, like sex crimes.

"We know that, for people who are involved in a sex offender treatment program, their risk of reoffending and reconviction goes down precipitously," Schnell said.

The MRRA also gives victims a greater say in the corrections process, Schnell said, as their input is considered in the development of offenders' rehabilitation plans. The DOC must also make a "reasonable effort" to notify victims if an offender is eligible to earn early release, and provide contact information for victim support services.

"The role of victims is part and parcel to this legislation," Schnell said. "Victims have a right to engagement and participation in this process."

The MRRA is a smart program with the potential to Boost safety both inside and outside prisons while saving the state some cash in the process. The majority of those in Minnesota prisons today will be released at some point or another. Making sure they have the skills they need to integrate back into their communities after they serve their time is a no-brainer.

When it comes to moving the needle on ESG goals and outcomes, Cara Smyth thinks about chess.

The global senior managing director of ESG and responsible retail at Accenture, and fellow and founder of Fordham University’s Responsible Business Coalition said “everybody knows what the [ESG] goals are, where we are marching — but it’s still too difficult to march.”

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Why? Smyth said while the fashion apparel and retail industry has the best intentions at heart, too many companies are compartmentalized and don’t collaborate enough. She said there needs to be a more holistic and systems-thinking approach. Think of it as a chess board, Smyth said, with each piece having a definitive role in the quest of implementing effective ESG practices.

For its part, Accenture’s latest ESG report serves as a playbook for brands and retailers to be successful. It includes 12 interconnected systems and issues the industry is trying to solve, “which is just one big system in itself,” Smyth said, noting that each chess piece (IT, finance, marketing, warehouse management, HR, operations, etc.) must work together and with transparency while also collaborating with vendors.

“And there’s a change management part,” Smyth said. “This is where you have to ask, ‘How am I going to get the waste out? How am I going to think about dynamic planning? Am I going to offshore, nearshore, onshore or produce less?’”

“You have to look at the systems that are inside a company and look at companies and suppliers in each of the systems that are caught in the entire chain,” Smyth said. “I think a lot of what is so electrifying and exciting about sustainability now is everybody starting to see the connections — including ones between industries. Maybe someone is thinking of leather and somebody else is thinking of beef supply. Well, they should get together and talk. Or someone is making jewelry and someone else has recycled steel — then they should get together.”

But there’s another dimension to systems thinking: the individual.

Smyth said the individual mindset plays a key role across an entire organization. “Everybody should be invited to think differently,” she said. “And I think we’re being forced to do that anyway because of the stakeholder pressures. But the first critical step is in the operating model.”

When Smyth first started working in the sustainability space, everything was siloed. “They kept the sustainability team separate from the business,” she said, adding that now brands and retailers need to align everyone across the value chain while seeing their own part to play.

At this stage in the ESG journey, Smyth said retailers and brands need to unleash innovation and creativity — internally and externally with vendor partners. “You have to find ways to release a lot of trapped value in the chain,” she said. Again, it goes back to asking questions. With vendors, Smyth said to question them about their processes. “Ask them, ‘Why is it coming in on a hangar and in a poly bag?’” Smyth said. “If you are a brand and I’m a retailer, and we were the same company, how would we think differently? And because of the sustainability goals and science-based targets and regulations that are coming on stream, you can’t just talk about your goals. You now have to talk about your remediation plans.”

Smyth said once the switch is flipped with regulations and remediation plans, “now you’ve got to actually fix it. And that means you’re going to have to collaborate in a different way. So, this brand and supplier engagement strategy is fantastic. It’s the way of the future. It’s creating a new dialogue while moving the system in a different direction.”

ESG practices also need to be driven by purpose. “And pleasure,” Smyth said. “We need to bring sexy back to sustainability — a little bit — because it’s gotten a little heavy and difficult. But if you think like, ‘Wow, I can actually do this better and do it differently’ — honestly, it’s a thrill.

“We’re at a point where all of the pressures are coming together in the right way to move things in a new direction,” Smyth said. “So, I am super hopeful.”

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham hit back at President Biden touting economic progress under his watch in Maine, Friday, on "The Ingraham Angle."

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LAURA INGRAHAM: First, remember, Biden has a long history of pretending that he's someone he's not, right. We know that and second, of course, he's going to fake a Trump-like approach to the economy because Trump's policies actually work and because Biden's numbers are in the toilet.

Look, the facts are undeniable here, Americans were making more when Trump was president, and they felt more optimistic about the future, barely any inflation, low energy prices, it all meant happier and more hopeful families. Meanwhile, the progress that Biden was out touting today in Maine, it's a fantasy. Inflation may be declining slightly, but big deal since he's the one who punished us with inflation in the first place. 

And the recent slight improvement in our GDP certainly wouldn't have been possible without the red states that are filled with all those MAGA Republicans Biden thinks are so terrible working as hard as they have. It's because those governors in those red states rejected lockdowns and frankly the entire Biden approach to COVID, and of course, at the same time, they're pushing pro-growth policies, all those policies that Biden hates. So Biden right now is trying to be both a globalist and a populist, but it doesn't work. In the past month, Blinken, Kerry and Yellen all traveled to China not to help Main Street, but to reassure Wall Street. Look, you can't be a populist and suck up to the CCP at the same time. And Biden's supposed support for Made in America today, it's all just talk. He already told the EU that he was going to tweak the Made in America provisions that would hurt their imports that he inserted in that so-called Inflation Reduction Act. So those are out the window.

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In the real world, facts are facts. And despite Democrat spins on the economy, look, reality bites here. Courtesy of Biden's destructive domestic and foreign policy gasoline, is now at an eight-month high as Russia now is working with OPEC to drive down supply. And all of us who go to the grocery store know that food costs are still way up. There up, a year ago, bread, frozen vegetables, pet food, all of it, it's a joke, and it's all on Biden's shoulders.

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