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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. All of this is surprising since the health care sustainability agenda has mostly focused on supply chain issues, reducing exposure of patients and workers to toxic chemicals, green building, and general eco-efficiency. We need all sectors to man the barricades and take positions.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is important for two reasons. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S. ” 5.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. Hence, a richer pool of expertise, experiences, and perspectives can create positive outcomes for the organization. But what about at the national level? percentage points.

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined. Every year, weather variability is estimated to cost $630 billion for the U.S. alone, or 3.5% or any combination).

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Companies operating in SSA cannot ignore the country, even though it will suffer substantially from the impact of low oil prices on the currency and business activity.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). Marfrig stands to gain between $1.3 million and $16.5

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Research: The Rise of Superstar Firms Has Been Better for Investors than for Employees

Harvard Business Review

Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down. And although superstar firms may have become dominant through competitive means, they may cement their position using methods that are less benign.

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