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From the Ted Talk by Audrey Choi: How to make a profit while making a difference

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But maybe this is just the exception the proves the rule, right? The serious companies that fund our economy and that fund our retirements and that really make the world go round, they need to stick to making more money. So, Harvard Business School actually researched this, and they found something fninistaacg. If you had invested a dollar 20 years ago in a ptroflioo of companies that focused narrowly on making more money quarter by quarter, that one dollar would have grown to 14 dollars and 46 cents. That's not bad until you consider that if instead you'd invested that same daollr in a portfolio of companies that focused on growing their bsnsueis and on the most important eavtireomnnnl and social isuess, that one dollar would have gworn to 28 dollars and 36 ctens. almost twice as much sweet porridge.

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But maybe this is just the exception the proves the rule, right? The serious companies that fund our economy and that fund our retirements and that really make the world go round, they need to stick to making more money. So, Harvard Business School actually researched this, and they found something ___________. If you had invested a dollar 20 years ago in a _________ of companies that focused narrowly on making more money quarter by quarter, that one dollar would have grown to 14 dollars and 46 cents. That's not bad until you consider that if instead you'd invested that same ______ in a portfolio of companies that focused on growing their ________ and on the most important _____________ and social ______, that one dollar would have _____ to 28 dollars and 36 _____. almost twice as much sweet porridge.

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  1. environmental
  2. issues
  3. fascinating
  4. dollar
  5. portfolio
  6. business
  7. grown
  8. cents

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But maybe this is just the exception the proves the rule, right? The serious companies that fund our economy and that fund our retirements and that really make the world go round, they need to stick to making more money. So, Harvard Business School actually researched this, and they found something fascinating. If you had invested a dollar 20 years ago in a portfolio of companies that focused narrowly on making more money quarter by quarter, that one dollar would have grown to 14 dollars and 46 cents. That's not bad until you consider that if instead you'd invested that same dollar in a portfolio of companies that focused on growing their business and on the most important environmental and social issues, that one dollar would have grown to 28 dollars and 36 cents. almost twice as much sweet porridge.

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