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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. With the company’s share price sinking and its cost of capital rising, those deals might have to be put on hold. Terranola had been moving forward with A.J.’s

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. It was about passion. And about people who have it. Thirteen years later, the stock price is now above $240, and it has a market cap bigger than Microsoft. That company is Apple.