Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation. The goal is "to develop sustainable banking products which are more accessible for qualified candidates and women in general."

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

This erosion in the role of the manager has not gone unnoticed. As part of a recent research project into how top executives view training and development programs, executives overwhelmingly said the most urgent problem they face is igniting their managers to coach employees.

Management 8

Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. This is the focus of my next project.).

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Vitality provides people with incentives to improve their health through gym memberships, discounts on healthy foods, and other awards based on the achievement of personal health goals, and then rewards members dynamically through lowered annual premiums, free travel, and perks. The result is a structural transformation of insurance.

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services. Such collaboration can take many shapes.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13