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The business value of social sustainability

CIO

Social sustainability is good for business. And companies are taking it seriously: a recent NTT report found that more than 40 percent of executives surveyed said social sustainability is a top imperative for their C-suite and Board of Directors. trillion, underscores the financial advantages of prioritizing social sustainability.

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Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program with Real Impact

Harvard Business Review

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. The study recommends encouraging broad employee participation in CSR and fostering a culture that values CSR’s long-term business benefits.

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Oxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits

TechCrunch

In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm.

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2023 Him For Her And Crunchbase Study Of Gender Diversity On Private Company Boards

Crunchbase News

Lauren Rivera, professor at Kellogg School of Management, co-authored the original 2019 benchmark study upon which subsequent annual research has been based. Executive summary Our fifth annual study, which characterizes the boards of the most heavily funded private companies in the U.S., Fewer women are boardroom “Only’s.”

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

Lean A3, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) and the Build-Measure-Learn or Think-Make-Check loop (to name a few loops) are all learning models informed by the notion that experimentation is the fastest (and most proven) route to product-market fit and achieving sustainable organic growth.

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Case Study: How to Increase Self-Organization in a Complex Environment

Agile42

It directly impacts the organization’s ability to deliver and affects established social structures. In this case study, we show how the right handling of constraints and practices allowed our client’s transformation team to handle complex and complicated questions to maneuver their organizations through this challenge.

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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

TechCrunch

Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. But Glose’s differentiating point is that the social features are intrinsically linked with the reading features — those aren’t two separate platforms. Glose Is A New Ebook Reader That Turns Reading Into A Social Experience.

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