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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

After all, since the 1990s, the sustainability sector has grown rapidly, though at around $1 billion in annual revenues globally it is no giant. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool. To truly shift the needle, however, we need a new wave of TBL innovation and deployment. So why recall it now?

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

Corporations have been great at extracting money from all corners of the world, but they don’t really have great ways of spending or investing it. The Global Digital Economy. And if corporations convert too many assets from the working and business economies into pure capital, then the whole system seizes up for lack of fuel.