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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality.

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Why the 21st Century Will Belong to Family Businesses

Harvard Business Review

A study of 25,000 publicly traded companies from 1950 to 2009 found that, on average, they lasted around 15 years, or not even through one generation. In this brave new world, public companies are losing their dominance : their share of America’s GDP, workforce, and assets has fallen by 50% over the last quarter of the 20th century.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. In this case its capital charge is $800 times 8%, or $64. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.