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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

It also recognizes that, in the meantime, operational managers will gain valuable experience and knowledge about how to optimize the new power systems. We worship internal rates of return (IRR) to our detriment. When it comes to green projects, this narrowly-defined measure of "payback" is particularly destructive.

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