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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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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Enormous opportunities also lie with e-waste. Create incentives.

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How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise

Harvard Business

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. As research we’ve conducted across industry and academia shows, companies have an unprecedented opportunity to tap ongoing advances in AI and machine learning research to reinvent business processes.

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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

Here you “benchmark the key revenue and cost metrics in your business against the market and against firms offering the most-comparable products.” One of the growth vectors they identified was moving into the production of high-end apparel that would be sold in department stores. .” Step 2: Do benchmarking.

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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. 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. Innovation.

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