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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

The investment industry is changing. All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. Across industries and countries, effective principles share three characteristics. First, they’re grounded in facts in order to bring that needed objectivity.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

With a constantly expanding field of practice areas, BTS is on its way to being a major player in the consulting industry. Industries. Marketing & Sales. Industrial Equipment. As a note, some of the industries BTS Group works the most in are fossil fuels and biotech, so you may see cases dealing with these industries.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Learning from Big Companies.

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