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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this growth, the researchers don’t believe the investment is sufficient to meet the Paris commitments, and argue that it would need to have doubled between 2010 and 2020 to have made a meaningful impact. Instead, they found that international cooperation, through initiatives such as Mission Innovation, played a greater role. “We

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How Shameless Copycatting Can Save Europe

Harvard Business Review

The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. Unemployed individuals were given stronger incentives to take up jobs, and overall labor force participation rates increased. How did Germany get back on track? That is a framework Swedes should quite naturally excel in.

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Companies Want to Disclose Employee Health Data to Shareholders, and It’s a Bad Idea

Harvard Business Review

Second, as my coauthors and I pointed out in this recent article in The American Journal of Managed Care, there is no correlation between employee weight and a company’s financial success. Several Harvard-affiliated economists argued in a 2010 Health Affairs article that wellness programs produce a 3.27-to-1

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. What can executives and managers do to motivate employees and ease the transition for the business to become more customer-centric?

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Google Changes the Playing Field on News

Harvard Business Review

That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Thats the theory, but there are some issues with Googles plan.

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To Fight Ebola, Stop Pointing Fingers

Harvard Business Review

The struggle of the old management model is playing out before our very eyes. Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes. Institutions and even nations will never meet these challenges alone, and especially not with yesterday’s management approaches.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. The Washington Post ran a special back in 2010 entitled " Top Secret America " that detailed the extent to which this was taking place.

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