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Clean Winners: Sustainability Strategy That Puts Customers First

Store aisles brim with “green” products, and companies promote bold sustainability pledges. Yet after years of investment, most aren’t seeing meaningful financial returns, customer value, or real environmental impact. Why? IMD professors Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace argue the problem is strategic misalignment. Instead of treating sustainability as a costly add-on, they show how leading “Resonators” use it to improve product performance, affordability, and profits—turning sustainability into a true value driver.

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Align your finances with purpose, impact, and fulfillment. Most personal finance advice focuses on money, college, and retirement—but does that make you happy? Good Money offers a new approach, putting purpose at the center of financial decisions. Investor John Coleman presents a six part framework for thinking differently about money: prioritize meaning in work, spend wisely, help others, invest for impact, save for freedom, and build a life of significance and flourishing.

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Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation

Innovation doesn’t just happen—it must be led. In Genius at Scale, Linda Hill, Emily Tedards, and Jason Wild reveal how leaders move from bold ideas to real impact. Drawing on global examples, they show how effective innovation depends on cocreation, experimentation, and learning—and on three vital roles: Architect, Bridger, and Catalyst. Together, these roles enable leaders to build cultures, partnerships, and movements that drive sustainable innovation.

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