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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

UVA Darden

carbon emissions, pollution, resource use), how it manages its stakeholder relations (e.g., alignment of management incentives and board structure). Some of these managers signal their acceptance of ESG investment principles by signing pledges such as the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI), the U.N.-supported

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Intelligent collaboration and risk management strategies require us, among other things, to perceive relationships, learn quickly and act upon relevant information. 845 Risk Intelligence and Measuring Excellence in Project Risk Management”, AACE International 2012. Intrapersonal curiosity (ourselves) . Hulett Ph.D.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Harvard Business Review

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. and with half of its fund assets indexed, it is not going anywhere if it does not like its portfolios’ strategies or results.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” Government Risk management Sustainability'

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