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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk.

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At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands.

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