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Four global forces that will impact the world of sustainability in 2022 (by IMD)
Senior executives are facing a clarion call to scale sustainable business models amid unprecedented pandemic disruptions and a looming climate crisis. While global leaders at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference made major commitments to cut methane...
Our future lives and livelihoods: Sustainable and inclusive and growing (by McKinsey)
"Growth for all, growth for good. Here, we offer a proposal for business, government, and society leaders. As the world economy starts to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, the time will soon come for leaders to look beyond safeguarding lives and livelihoods and to set...
ESG investment must be built on measurement of real impact
Measuring the true impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments is crucial to assessing the claims made by their promoters and comparing different opportunities. This is a difficult task but not impossible. The biggest challenge facing...
Innovating to net zero: An executive’s guide to climate technology (by McKinsey)
Advanced technologies are critical to stopping climate change—and the drive to develop and scale them is accelerating. Here are five themes that could attract $2 trillion of annual investment by 2025. New technologies represent a critical part of the world’s...
Be aware: Don’t destroy value (by Bettina Büchel, IMD)
"Strategic planning processes that do not match the pace of technological changes require a different approach. Imagine a great growth opportunity has just sprung up for your company during the course of the year and outside of the budgeting process. But no funding is...
The prospects for developing countries are not what they once were (The Economist)
"Twenty years on, growth in the BRICs has slowed In 2000 this newspaper wrote that “the most pressing moral, political and economic issue of our time is third-world poverty.” At the time, 28% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, which is to say on...
Seven sustainability trends to watch in 2021 (by Natalia Olynec)
The COVID pandemic disrupted supply chains, business models and millions of livelihoods. That shock reinforced the view that a long-term approach, centered around environmental, social and governance principles, is increasingly important for a sustainable future. ...
Why A.I. Should Be Afraid of Us (By Alan Burdick, NYTimes.com/Science)
Artificial intelligence is gradually catching up to ours. A.I. algorithms can now consistently beat us at chess, poker and multiplayer video games, generate images of human faces indistinguishable from real ones, write news articles (not this one!) and even love...
Bias Is a Big Problem. But So Is ‘Noise.’ (By Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein)
Pete Ryan The word “bias” commonly appears in conversations about mistaken judgments and unfortunate decisions. We use it when there is discrimination, for instance against women or in favor of Ivy League graduates. But the meaning of the word is broader: A bias is...
Checking the health of your business partnerships (by McKinsey)
"Frequent, systematic assessments of joint ventures and alliances can reveal hidden problems and opportunities to create more value. Formal business partnerships —whether structured as joint ventures (JVs) or a series of alliances—can help companies enter new markets,...
