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How Accounting Can Help Build a Sustainable Economy

Harvard Business Review

Eccles, a mathematician by training and one of the foremost experts in corporate reporting, has for the past five years been working to create sustainability accounting standards for the investment community (he is also the chairman of ESG asset management firm Arabesque Partners). It’s been slow going.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change?

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Can Insurance Companies Incentivize Their Customers to Be Healthier?

Harvard Business Review

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. million people.

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At Olympus and Goldman Sachs, Two Very Different Whistleblowers

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, Woodford was asked to lead the Japanese maker of optical equipment, first as president (in April) then as CEO (in September). Business leaders must respond directly to bad facts (carefully developed!), Goldman settled within months for $550 million.