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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

One study estimated that companies experience an average internal rate of return of 27% to 80% on their low carbon investments. Building Customer Loyalty. When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. Some 62.4%

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

In the shift, we are learning that an argument about the proper activities of managers can be logical, can be strongly argued, can influence decades of practice in the world’s largest corporations – and can still be plain, flat, dead wrong. These problems hardly arose overnight; they began brewing early.