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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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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. That’s a more than a hundredfold escalation in labor costs, plus higher materials costs — and horrible quality. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. Furthermore, U.S.