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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Copyright 2011. Be prepared.