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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. In pursuit of breakthrough, management is not the enemy as it is so often portrayed.

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Only the CEO Can Make the Big Bets

Harvard Business Review

This blog was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Because they can use traditional business metrics to defend the pursuit of incremental innovations to management. We say, "The Higher the Goal, the Higher the Role."

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. The Refresher: Net Present Value. ” The goal is to develop an understanding of how your day-to-day actions help your employer to “drive revenue or mitigate costs,” he says.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

CFOs are more interested in capital investment estimates, net present values, and a clear outline of the trade-offs of any investment. Together with the CFO, the CMO must develop a set of objectives that directly deliver on financial objectives and business goals. Help CFOs focus on the long term.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

I can’t imagine, recalling my days at Rio Tinto, the managers of a copper mine measuring and proudly reporting how much dirt was moved, how deep the hole was, and how many trucks they had procured – while staying mum about how much copper was produced. To a business person, think how absurd this would seem.

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A Refresher on Price Elasticity

Harvard Business Review

This is one of the key metrics for marketing managers, says Avery. “Our job is to create products and services that have unique and sustainable value for customers compared with other options available to them in the marketplace. . ” What are some of the common mistakes managers make with price elasticity?

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