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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Harvard Business Review

MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. We explored reasons for the growing use of the dual-class structure in an HBS case study among technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

Porter is a member in good standing of the business-community Kagame fan club, and has just finished a new version of his case study (an earlier one is available here ) on Rwanda''s economic transformation. The case study doesn''t hide the fact that Kagame has many critics, but it doesn''t dwell on political issues.

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