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The Value of a Corporate Sustainability Policy

Comatch

Sustainability is well perceived by stakeholders like investors, customers, and employees, so companies that pursue ESG topics will reap the benefits and set themselves apart from competitors. . Not only is creating an internal corporate sustainability policy the right thing to do, but it can also have immense value for organizations.

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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business

Starting in the mid-1990s, RFID was expected to transform inventory control by using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. But the tags never took off, because their cost was never offset by sufficient benefits. It also promised to obviate the need for manual barcode scanning at checkouts.

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Three Steps to Successful Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

Once you have your groups listed out, you’ll want to identify the owners of each of these relationships (for example, your investor relations department owns the relationships with your investors, while HR owns the relationships with your employees, candidates and some vendors, such as recruiters). Government organizations.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

But while these are sensible strategies, few companies outside of the technology industry are achieving their desired returns on the eye-popping price tags of some of these deals, in part because they overvalue flashy technologies. Users in Different Ecosystems. And the company had plenty of motivated talent.

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How Low-Paying Retailers Can Adapt to Higher Minimum Wages

Harvard Business

These increases will seriously affect low-wage employers such as retailers and restaurants, which means investors should be asking some tough questions to see which low-wage employers in their portfolios will benefit from the wage hikes and which will lose: How are you increasing your labor productivity? Simplify processes.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing.

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What a Toys “R” Us Comeback Could Look Like

Harvard Business

Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia, signed off on a bankruptcy plan that revealed that investors intended to use the company’s brands in various ways. After filing for bankruptcy protection from creditors in September 2017, it closed all its stores in the United States and United Kingdom earlier this year.

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