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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. Third, people are over-optimistic and thus underestimate their own risk exposure.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands.

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