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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues).

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Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important

Harvard Business Review

Discovery, the South African insurer, has formed strategic alliances with leading insurers around the world to license its Vitality platform—a quick, low-cost way to gain access to new markets. These new organizations are likely to operate quite differently from traditional corporations.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Most firms cite opportunities to reduce friction and costs. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed?

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive. Bringing everyone into line is essential, but not necessarily easy or quick. Ask for the CFO’s help.

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