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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

Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate).

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

Its function is to grow companies by turning active economic activity into static bags of capital; in doing so, it has taken a liquid medium necessary for our economy’s circulation and frozen it in corporate accounts. After all, digital corporations will necessarily carry out corporate code better than their predecessors.

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

These sectoral scandals raise profound issues for business leaders: in a highly competitive global economy, in which some sectors are flooded with money, how do you assess sector-wide integrity risks and achieve a culture of corporate accountability before , not after, bad behavior occurs? The most notable was Fannie Mae's $10.8