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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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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Marketing KPIs need to incorporate customer acquisition and retention targets and costs.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. This stochastic discount factor model is the modern economic update of those, correct?

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