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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. All of these approaches must extend across the firm and be practiced by contractors down the supply chain.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. But these trends, and the business responses to them, carry secondary, nonmarket risks — which may turn out to be even greater.