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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?)

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. The third factor is political.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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The Lure of China's Public Sector

Harvard Business Review

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. But that's no longer the case — especially for some of China's smartest women.

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A (Not So) Magic Formula For Sustainable Business Excellence

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Magic Formula For Sustainable Business Excellence – It’s More Hard Work Than Hocus Pocus by Starbucker on August 1, 2010 “How did you do that&# ? “Pr&# is Pride. “ Fc&# is Focus. Stay inspired!

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Exclusive: Chris Garrett Reveals His Secrets of Success (and More.

Terry Starbucker

He’s a thoughtful, friendly, and caring person who genuinely wants to help people , not only by improving their web sites, but by improving the quality of their lives as well. The human qualities I felt these people possessed I think are sadly scarce but are the reasons for their success.