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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. Innovation can be their lever. Innovation'

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. °C (3.8°F) Getting to 1.5

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Sustainable Business Will Move Ahead With or Without Trump’s Support

Harvard Business Review

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. All of the signatories are meeting right now at the UN climate change conference in Morocco, and they’re making it clear that they are powering on.