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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package. According to Prasad Setty, Director of People Analytics at Google, their goal is to have all people decisions driven by data.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business Review

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). The greening of the supply chain.