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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.

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Corporations: Lessons from a College Football Halftime

Michael Lee Stallard

First created in 2010, the video combined inspirational music and footage of hundreds of survivors and supporters. When your team experiences helpers’ high, it will boost collaboration and cooperation. The highlight of each year’s Frogs for the Cure halftime show is the special music video that plays on the stadium’s jumbo screens.

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A $10 Trillion Bet on China and India

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report predicting that the economy of China will rebound and grow 8.5% growth rate this year to a slowdown in exports and the government's intervention to stave off inflation and rein in property prices. in 2013 and 8.9% trillion.

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Research: Firms Give More Stock Options When They’re Committing Fraud

Harvard Business Review

For example, look at Sherron Watkins, formerly of Enron, and Cynthia Cooper, formerly of WorldCom. Both women helped uncover massive frauds inside their organizations that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars. Research suggests that employees are often in a position to discover and expose wrongdoing in organizations.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Watch Out for Rising U.S.-China Competition

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China found that 38% of U.S. In some sectors, such as high-speed rail, China is already a leader, largely because it demanded technology as the price for domestic market access. And its huge capacity to mobilize domestic capital gives it the power to do so. For many U.S.

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How the Market Ruined Twitter

Harvard Business Review

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010. billion in less than a year.