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Lessons From the Military: Your Risk is My Risk, Too

Harvard Business Review

Third, character matters just as much as any knowledge or skills acquired from training and education. Leading people in risky environments is not a game with a reset button, a golden parachute, or a bailout clause. Risk has faces and names.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Shell Oil doesn’t sell cooking oil, but its Shell Foundation contributes to making cleaner, safer cook stoves available in the developing world. It’s time to recognize that income inequality is a sustainability issue, too. Yes, Switzerland.