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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. billion in mining projects since 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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Why Europe's Carbon Woes Matter to the Whole World

Harvard Business Review

In fact, they''re operating at such a comparatively low level that as things stand now, many of them, including utilities, will be able to emit as much carbon as they want for the next decade without hitting their limits. And it will be much harder to attract private capital to infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions. Without a strong business case built on analytics, marketing too often is seen as a cost rather than an investment, despite marketing’s ability to drive above-market growth.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital. Monitor it.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Time after time, new initiatives and projects are rolled out with great fanfare only to end up abandoned and dubbed expensive flops. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.