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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business Review

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016. Methodology.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. The Commonwealth Bank appeared to shareholders as simply putting out a fire.

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Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management

Harvard Business Review

This was painfully obvious to us while reading the newly released diversity and inclusion report from a large Silicon Valley company: Its 19 pages never specifically address Asian Americans. We have found that in many companies throughout the country, Asian-related programs are geared toward cultural inclusion, not management diversity.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

To deflect attention from these challenges, the Cuban government has introduced various distortions into the country’s official economic statistics , which are used largely unaltered by entities such as the World Bank and CEPAL. A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. billion of India’s citizens to voting, banking, government assistance, healthcare, recordkeeping, and more.

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