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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. In essence, Bedore was saying that Walmart recognizes that it can help take the solar market to scale, thus lowering its costs in the future.

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Lafley’s P&G Brand Cull and the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

“Importantly, this will be a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that’s easier to manage and operate.” ” Choosing to lead and manage in accord with that empirical insight has enormous organizational and operation repercussions. ” Does the leaner, meaner, and refocused Lafley 2.0

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. In other words, they connected with people who could help them with customer issues, such as staff in finance, legal, pricing, or marketing. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.