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More Diverse Boards Do Better On ESG

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers scrutinized data from 2012 to 2021, extracted from the annual and sustainability reports of 300 non-financial Pakistani listed companies. The study further uncovered that an increase in the proportion of female directors on both the board and the audit committee amplifies their constructive influence on reporting quality.

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What Impact Does It Have When Leaders Become Sick?

The Horizons Tracker

The study gathered data on around 13,000 Danish SMEs from 1996 to 2012, with the data revealing that a five-to-seven day period of hospitalization for the CEO resulted in profitability of that business falling by 7% during that year. What’s more, this damage was even more severe if the period of hospitalization is longer.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

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Within the last year, I’ve attended dozens of meetings with communicators in which a single, consistent order is dispatched: “We’ve got to incorporate social media in ALL our strategies.”. Then there are those thoughtful thinkers who pause for a moment to go deeper in understanding what it means to be strategic with social media.

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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! And these days, there’s no better way to do that than through social media – in essence, by building your company’s own Social Nation.

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How Bold Corporate Climate Change Goals Deteriorate Over Time

Harvard Business Review

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before Revolution

Harvard Business Review

The business media have had no shortage of these. Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Why is that? Unbundling Existing Value Propositions. Insight Center.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, excessive austerity is bad macroeconomic policy. This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo.