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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Financial capital is assumed to be virtually unlimited, while certain types of human capital are in short supply. Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Risk is now considered a feature, not a bug.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty. This is what is going on now in community development.

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