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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the largest health care providers in America, has a clear mission: improve health. This health care leader is showing how an authentic, mission-driven connection to global issues can drive change. KP is not a minor player in a health care industry that accounts for 16% of U.S.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. The local economy hadn’t diversified beyond its base in tourism and real estate into fast-growing areas such as health care or bioscience, and entrepreneurial success stories were few and far between.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

With an increase in Japan’s female employment rate, the country’s workforce would expand by more than eight million people—and its GDP would grow by as much as 13 percent.* Industries with the highest have more female-dominated workforces and include health care, education and retail industries (43 to 47 percent of leaders are women).Industries

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before. Watch this space. 2014 and Beyond.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

Climate change, building a clean economy, reducing inequality and raising wages, providing health care to support general wellbeing — all are big unknowns now. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view.

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