Remove EPS Remove Finance Remove Innovation Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Companies like Unilever are on an open innovation drive, while GSK and Novartis are focusing on access to medicines in poorer markets. Breakthrough Finance.

EPS 8
article thumbnail

The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Challenges of this frame: It is tempting to imagine that such technology will solve all our resource problems, but shoehorning billions of extra people onto the planet must have consequences.

Morale 8
article thumbnail

What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Social innovation.