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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment. These pockets of success coexisted with signs of distress, however. The industry’s median five-year average annual total shareholder return (TSR) of 3.2%

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

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