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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

The investment industry is changing. 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. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images.

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Technology Is Changing What a Premium Automotive Brand Looks Like

Harvard Business

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. Proprietary research A.T.

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

Harvard Business

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the risks vary considerably between industries.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

Across industries and countries, effective principles share three characteristics. One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. This is especially needed in organizations that have been geared for functional excellence everywhere.

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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.