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The Power of Class Action Investigations

Strategy Driven

That’s why corporate interests want to destroy this powerful litigation method. They’re a Way to Address Systemic Harm The power of class actions has long been a target of business advocates trying to undermine support for these lawsuits in Congress and the media.

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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

To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL). But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

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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?

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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. What algorithms do to the trading floor, digital business does to the economy.