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5 Convincing Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices

Strategy Driven

Plenty of proactive companies are shifting and adjusting their operations to incorporate sustainable practices. Improved operations and lower expenses. Fortunately, with the help of demand management , you can track your energy requirements and capacity and control costs. Enhanced corporate social responsibility.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. They have been displacers, not disrupters.

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To Prevent Another Rana Plaza, Build Better Societies, Not Just Better Factories

Harvard Business Review

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business Review

Operations in a Connected World. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.