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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers.

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Take Your Values And Make Them Your Cause

Strategy Driven

The next step is creating a plan to not only communicate them, but integrate them into everything you do at the company. Life insurance sales and sales of plans in teachers’ retirement programs – two of our core business lines – have more than doubled between 2011 and 2015. You and your company can do the same.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. The government’s pro-growth policies and abundant spending only increased corporate interest and multinational expansion plans.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The event brought together some 250 entrepreneurs and investors for a series of panels, round tables, and a business plan competition. The government is rolling out what it calls its National Broadband Plan , a $4.5 An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong?

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.