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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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A New Use for MOOCs: Real-World Problem Solving

Harvard Business Review

There''s been no shortage of media coverage on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the past year. Some MOOC critics have argued that the "MOOC revolution" has been characterized by the Gartner Hype Cycle and that 2012, the Year of the MOOC , has given way to a new trough of disillusionment.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

To help shine some light on this topic, I've decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

However, if you need capital to validate, you are operating in a zone that will be full of very dark hours. I haven’t dug up the 2012 numbers. This is not what the media makes it out to be.”. We have numerous case studies of this being a tried and true procedure, and recommend it strongly.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

Without clear ethics rules, Jay worried that his already divided directors would fall into bitter squabbling, which could lead to resignations, negative media attention, and a flight of investors. Probably our biggest impact on sustainability comes not through the loans we make but through media coverage of our mission.