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Investing in Your Company’s Physical Risk Resilience

Harvard Business

Extreme weather events, infrastructure and technology failures, and transportation accidents are on the rise globally. A simple ROI calculation won’t cut it for physical risk prevention and mitigation investments because they can’t be measured by increases in revenue.

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Virtual Classes Are Here to Stay – Here’s Why

Clarity Consultants

Online Classes Lead to Higher ROIs. Typically, virtual learning programs offer both students and higher education institutions a higher return on investment (ROI) than traditional classroom-based approaches. For colleges and universities, there are also opportunities for an improved ROI.

ROI 65
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Clean Tech Consulting: Adapting to Seize Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms can assist by conducting thorough financial modeling and ROI analysis. Consultants can work closely with companies to assess supply chain practices, identify opportunities for optimization, and integrate clean tech solutions into procurement, logistics, and transportation processes.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Keeping the world at 1.5

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The Business Case for an Employee Communication App - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM STAFFBASE

Harvard Business

Research by Staffbase shows that a mobile employee app dramatically improves internal communication, and it identified four areas where companies can see concrete ROI. In 2017, German transport company Reinert Logistics implemented an employee app with their workforce, of which 83% of employees are non-desk workers.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

This is expected as the costs of manufacturing, transportation and other inputs decline.) How could ROI be undermined by unanticipated value-added taxes or goods and services taxes (VAT/GST) — among the many different direct and indirect taxes that will come into play — with rates in Europe ranging from 3% to 27%?

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

Since it takes several years for a new model to go from the drawing board to the marketplace, Ford’s ROI formulas are mapped out according to historical precedents. If Ford applied those same ROI expectations to its new logistics business, it would likely kill it before it has a chance to thrive.