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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head. These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. million and $16.5

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. His vision of financial innovation is that by designing the right instruments, you could help people be more rational, because you could focus their attention on the things that matter.

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