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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Here's why: Going Cradle-to-Cradle helped put us ahead of the curve on perhaps the biggest environmental trend: recycling. We did that. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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