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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

A healthy culture promotes productive conflict, team member participation, and team engagement. Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Enhance individual commitment to the company within the workplace. Heffernan, M.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.