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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.

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How We Built a New Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. NPS had hit a rough patch in 2006. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. First, let me give you a little background.

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When a Product Fails, Find a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. He developed the next generation form of Provigil prior to the patent expiration.