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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004.

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Is Your Next Great CEO a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

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Electing a President in a Microtargeted World

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations. The underlying technology is still largely the same. Definitely the scale. So we'll do a lot of A/B testing with online ads.

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