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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

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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

CMOs must demonstrate and track marketing’s impact by focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs) that are important for shareholder value such as strong cash flow, cost of capital, return on capital, and operating margin. Shareholders don’t care about fans or followers unless those numbers can be tied to profit.

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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. Discovery also gets access to all the data from these users, allowing it to improve Vitality.

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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.