Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. According to VentureWell, as of May 2016 the program has trained over 700 teams, which have raised more than $80 million from venture funding, government grants, and other sources.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

Incubator 13

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. of government revenue was derived from energy in the first half of FY 16. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Partners co-invested their time, energy, and resources alongside community members into a set of interconnected programs in and around a specific group of villages.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In fact, Bloomberg reported that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. The wealthy can now install large high-power solar energy systems that produce enough energy to meet their needs for an entire year.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. VC investment; in 2016 it was under 8%.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. Money spent on these necessities account for 70% of middle-class expenditures. There are 3.5 million jobs would vanish.

Retail 13

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions.

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CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. For instance, we worked with a finance team charged with rolling out a novel business reporting product for transforming the culture of a staid government agency. 100% of team members were considered pragmatic.

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Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance. billion in public support.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The 2016 U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. million to the U.S.

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Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. In April 2016, Cuba held its Seventh Communist Party Congress. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. An economic crossroads.

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