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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Barrick Gold founder and chair Peter Munk stressed that in today’s environment, “The single most critical factor in growing a mining company is a social consensus — a license to mine.” New research is pointing in the same direction. Too often, these tasks are pushed off to consultants.