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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%.