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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality.

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

As I participated, one theme seemed omnipresent — that while events are unfolding in the world at an accelerating pace, increasingly complex institutions are less and less able to deal with them. Government is the most visible crucible for this clash of speed versus complexity, yet businesses are not far behind.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important

Harvard Business Review

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Likewise, the airlines have demonstrated that well-constructed alliances can be a powerful way to build market position and capitalize on scale.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? By reducing transaction costs among all participants in the economy, blockchain supports models of peer-to-peer mass collaboration that could make many of our existing organizational forms redundant.