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Bring Your Garden to Work

Harvard Business Review

This is especially true in large cities, where premium real estate often means that parks are pushed out and buildings are pushed up, skyward, creating canyons of concrete and glass. With all these benefits, maybe the idea of a rooftop garden doesn't seem so pie-in-the-sky. But at least we have that square of grass.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business Review

Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies. These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. And thus those companies are massively overvalued.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.) The owners of Service Merchandise and Woolworth’s have both benefitted from this line of thinking. But sometimes the right decision is the more painful one.

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M&A Special Report: The Great Deal Reset

Chief Executive

Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.