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Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

One year later, the most powerful storm ever recorded to hit land devastated the Philippines. Here’s one of the more compelling examples highlighted in the paper: One of Shell’s joint ventures, Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO), uses constructed wetlands to treat produced water from oilfields.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. None of these are easy questions. ” he asked.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. rate for other companies.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

Stress tests are a specific form of simulation developed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to allow them to figure out how badly a given financial institution’s portfolio would hold up if there was a broad sell-off across a bunch of asset classes, or a specific kind of shock like what we suffered in 2008.