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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. They ensure that would-be climate entrepreneurs have less incentive to invent.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Apple is an enormously powerful firm, and its actions can set the agenda for an entire industry. Big firms face different incentives, for a few reasons. To the extent these firms have market power, they’re less subject to quarter-to-quarter competitive pressure. This isn’t an argument for monopoly.

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