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The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

The results of this paper provide support to an earlier article (“ The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ”) where we described a framework that companies could use to create value by doing good. SASB uses the U.S.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). Following the real estate metaphor, the PE company is less like a house flipper and more like a property developer: each separate home is designed, built, bought, and sold as an independent property. In this phase, the acquired property is not just managed, but transformed.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. The result: a shortage of good growth ideas.

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