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Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them. Innovation in Cities. Addressing energy use in existing large commercial buildings has proven notoriously difficult. Insight Center.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.) That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?