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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective. million and $39.9

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Does Customer Prejudice Help Drive the Employment Gap Between White and Black Americans?

Harvard Business

A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap. In the case of consumer discrimination, some customers may prefer not to interact with minority workers.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

I said, “Do you mean the proposal I wrote in 2010?” Sometimes great things can happen very quickly, but in many cases you want to have that mindset for the long-term. We’ve invested a fair amount of time getting to know each other and getting aligned around methodology and how we think about clients. This was 2014.