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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. The price tag for accomplishing these global goals is estimated to be up to $3 trillion a year for 15 years. The case is clear.

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Morning Advantage: Heavy Metal Management

Harvard Business Review

That time came in 2010, reports The Guardian , when two aging Swedish financiers attended Freak Guitar summer camp in bucolic Härsjösand outside Gothenburg. What Really Happens When You Miss that Earnings Mark (McKinsey Quarterly). But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S. THERE GOES THAT EXCUSE.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. 1] McKinsey & Co., We chose a turnaround strategy built on a radical idea framed by a former Greenpeace activist.

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These 6 Sectors of Africa’s Economy Are Poised for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail

Harvard Business Review

For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests. Recent research from McKinsey Global Institute found that 45% of work activities could potentially be automated by today’s technologies, and 80% of that is enabled by machine learning.