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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

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The CEO of Coca-Cola on Using the Company’s Scale for Good

Harvard Business Review

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Sustainability can no longer be a compliance measure or a “nice-to-do”; it’s now a business planning imperative with measures, goals, and explicit value connected to our programs. Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business Review

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. Lawyers are at the helms of banks, biotech companies, high-tech firms, internet startups, and retail outfits, as well as utilities and pharmaceuticals. ’s largest banks?

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. Most large U.S. companies already provide workers with health benefits.

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Making the Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey [PDF] on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business Review

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. Trump knows how to use the bully pulpit to press this kind of thinking on all big-box retailers and big distributors.