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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

I grew up a global orphan, and I call London my home today. Today's world of bailouts, golden parachutes, sky-high financial-sector salaries — while middle incomes stagnate — seems to be exactly the reverse. But the superstorm's a global one, not just a cloudburst over Camden Lock.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Just last week, the World Economic Forum named income inequality as “the risk that is most likely to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade,” and Oxfam International reported that the world’s 85 richest people have more wealth than the 3.5 Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues.