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Corporate Diversity Still Coming Up Short for Women

Strategy Driven

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

In July, General Mills — nobody’s idea of a radical company — expanded the pro-climate lobbying group BICEP beyond the usual suspects (Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s) to add a distinctly mainstream voice to the call for policies like a price on carbon. Kellogg’s officially joined the group yesterday as well.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

But country-level and regional policy moved forward: Australia passed a carbon tax , South Korea approved carbon trading , and California just began its own trading experiment. a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. In the U.S.,

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The Power of Beliefs to Move Markets and Mindsets

Harvard Business Review

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term".

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. There are people very much steeped in this work, including you, who are out there managing stocks and other assets based on it. What we often find is that asset allocation is something the clients themselves want to manage.

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