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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%

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with. To prioritize projects, for instance, the ALL team could have forecast future cash flows for every potential investment and ranked all proposals on the basis of their net present value.

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How to Choose the Ideas Your Company Should Invest In

Harvard Business Review

In The Innovator's Guide to Growth we suggested that companies should create one-page "Idea Resumes" that capture the essence of an idea on a single PowerPoint slide. If you don't have an innovation strategy , go and create one.). Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? That's a good thing.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a.

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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.