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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Technology Is Changing What a Premium Automotive Brand Looks Like

Harvard Business

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Brand equity: heritage vs. digital.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. Once the blueprint is developed, we find that the best CEOs focus not only on the capabilities that matter, but on the individuals and teams that matter. ” he asked.

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business

In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts. or any combination).

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

To develop a BDN, you work backwards, or right to left, from the agreed investment objectives and the expected benefits, and map the required changes to structures, processes, work practices, and how staff would need to work through to the new technology necessary to enable and sustain those changes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.