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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Play with numbers.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. With this metric, the gap between long-term companies and the rest is even bigger.