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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

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. Bedore said as much.until he added the critical caveat that in the case of green power, Walmart bean counters were looking beyond the near-term payback.

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