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People Think Companies Can’t Do Good and Make Money. Can Companies Prove Them Wrong?

Harvard Business Review

Even in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, it appears very difficult to make most people appreciate that ethical and profitable business practices do not fundamentally conflict. Doing so entails operating more efficiently or innovating to create products that consumers value more. Our research.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Marketers, credit card companies, banks, local government agencies, political campaigns, and many others can harness SVPAs to both deliver critical information and to better read and understand constituents. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data.

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