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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Renewable energy in electricity generation. Entrepreneurial communities can incubate nascent technologies and ventures through accelerator programs and crowdfunding. In 2011, he was named one of the top 40 business professors under 40 by Poets & Quants. Electrical vehicles in transportation. And the list goes on.

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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

The innovation initiative was born from our Organizational Growth Team, a cross-functional internal team formed in 2011 to focus on investing in Genecians, evolving our capabilities, and predictably delivering value to clients. We’d look to the incubator to further sponsor ideas originating from Genecians.

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Use Jugaad to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better

Harvard Business Review

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. Take, for instance, SELCO, an Indian renewable energy firm founded by the U.S.-educated Jugaad innovators innovate cheaper: Jugaad innovators are very frugal.

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Indian Tales of Inclusive Business Models

Harvard Business Review

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. We will be writing more about these pioneers in our blog posts throughout 2011.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Disappointed, but still determined, Etosha got a break when she attended a cleantech event hosted by the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy in the summer of 2014. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.” ” An Alternative Path. So Opus 12 applied to the I-Corps program and was accepted.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA.