Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

In The Entrepreneur ’s Faces , we chronicle the Stanford Launchpad accelerator where the professors challenge students to raise money fast, with energy and intensity. This discipline focuses founders on developing the necessary urgency to launch a winning product. Rapidly shift your value proposition or target market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

It means energy turning point. (We In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation.

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Energy Decentralization Industry Power 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. GM wanted 100 landfill-free (“zero waste”) manufacturing sites by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 In Europe there is a target for 80% of households to have smart meters by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. The resulting chaos in Europe''s energy and environmental policies is threatening carbon-reduction initiatives in Australia, Asia, and elsewhere. Exceeding them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. trillion in 2009 to more than $30 trillion in 2020. For example, when GE introduced a low-cost electrocardiogram machine in India, it also developed innovative ways to finance and distribute the device.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.” New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. For example, we’re working to achieve water neutrality by 2020. It can be difficult to measure and compare.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 29, 2023

This is reflected in Europe, with the European Commission arguing that up to 290 billion euros per year will be needed to develop green energy and infrastructure. Research from EDHEC Business School suggests that such investments would provide a good return, even when compared to investments in fossil-energy infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is forcing many incumbents in the grocery segment to rethink their go-to-market strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 trillion by 2020. Alternative energy technologies have become big business. Executives from Shell call sustainability a "TINA" issue — "There Is No Alternative.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For every liter of its beverage products (like Sprite, Dasani, teas, juices, and energy drinks) you’re drinking about a liter of the life-giving liquid. ” It’s a parallel concept to the carbon neutrality that many companies try to achieve by, for example, using renewable energy, planting trees, or buying carbon offsets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. As consumer demand for connected devices increases (and projections from Cisco and others suggest that there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020), traditional manufacturers will, en masse, become manufacturers of connected devices.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Long-range wireless : 3G wireless is now fairly standard around the world (with emerging markets being ahead of the U.S. This cuts down electricity by avoiding vampire energy. And Poken has developed a platform that makes it easy to gather intelligence from surrounding people and objects, using RFID. due to lack of legacy).

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Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On the upside, similar calculations from WWF and McKinsey suggests that this pace of change –they endorse a 3% reduction in absolute emissions per year through 2020 – will actually be very profitable. This may seem like a regional story, but it has global ramifications for manufacturing, consumer goods, the energy industry, and much more.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Target raised its minimum wage to $11 this past fall and committed to $15 by 2020. Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

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Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

With over 50 billion connected devices expected by 2020, the Internet of things (IoT) is poised to have a major impact. For example, solutions provider Oracle built huge market share by supporting multiple platforms like Windows and Linux. Click here to for a version that you can enlarge to see more detail.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. trillion by 2020.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. In January 2000, Soki Choi left Accenture Sweden to start her own company developing applications for mobile phones.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Developments in telecommunications, computing technologies, and electronic sensors are inspiring less of human intervention in controlling some sensitive equipment including vehicles, planes, helicopters, trains, etc. Mining automation market will reach $3.29 billion by 2023. MarketsandMarkets Inc. billion by 2023.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. Unilever U.S. In the U.S., Financing the clean economy.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

Is it a marketing campaign? A guide for product and service development? GE always kept the program broad, including both flashier, clearly green products like wind turbines, and also more industrial, behind-the-scenes offerings such as energy-efficient motors. Launched in 2005, ecomagination has always been a bit amorphous.

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Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Walmart set a 50% renewable target for 2025.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies. ranked 30th out of the 50 countries studied. and China. .”

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