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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. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

Through a closed loop system the products are returned and the materials either recycled to make new high value products or put back into the earth through the biosphere. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it? 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Big Business Increasingly Supports Gay Rights

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. The two decades that have followed have seen an increase in marketing and advertising to the LGBT market that Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated at $800 billion in 2011.

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80% of Companies Don’t Know If Their Products Contain Conflict Minerals

Harvard Business Review

stock markets. For example, for companies to know where their tantalum comes from — the metal is widely used by the electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical, and aircraft turbine industries — they need to survey their suppliers and persuade them to survey their suppliers, and so on. We wanted to find out.