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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

According to UNCTAD’s Technology and Innovation Report 2023 , there is a risk of increased economic inequality as developed countries are likely to benefit the most from green technologies, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and electric vehicles.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. It is among the most transactional of all businesses.