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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

And the commitment to green energy has helped Walmart take third place on the U.S. The actual cash payback periods are getting shorter, but they rarely meet the typical 2-year (or so) ROI required by most large companies. First, 75 percent of Walmart's California stores now have "some kind of renewable energy system."

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal. Belvedere’s distillery in Poland shifted from oil to gas for energy generation and added heat recovery systems to capture wasted energy.