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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

To understand its sustainability journey better, I spoke with the company’s head of environment, Sylvie Benard , and the CEOs of two of its wine and spirits brands. Managing Carbon and Energy. However, it’s a bit easier for the brand CEOs to stay focused on the long term when some of the maisons are three centuries old.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.

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