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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

Second, Bedore spoke about how Walmart thinks about its investments in green power: "There is an ROI calculation on all sustainability investments like on all projects, but.we 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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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

As a result of capital superabundancy, global quantitative easing and relatively low demand for investments in R&D and capital projects, the after-tax cost of borrowing for many companies is at or near inflation, making the real cost of borrowing close to zero. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it. Monitor it.