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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Others, such as ANZ, the Australian-based banking giant, have committed to adopting Agile at scale in less than a year, following some of the proven practices used by Spotify , the music streaming company. For too long, business objectives and management philosophies have focused on efficiency over productivity.

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Divestment Alone Won’t Beat Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing.

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Divestment Alone Won’t Beat Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Divestment can theoretically address this market failure by limiting investment by the fossil fuel industry by depressing company valuations and thereby increasing the cost of capital. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing.

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Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

Harvard Business Review

During the 2013 holiday season shopping period, Target was the object of then the biggest cyber attack on a retailer. bank in assets, JP Morgan Chase , announced that in August, hackers had accessed its security system and that approximately seven million small businesses and 76 million households had been affected by a data breach.

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