Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Authority on new technology and communication. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. President Dartmouth College.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? If you are thinking these thoughts, you are creating an energy frequency, and therefore, a negative reality around them. Do you notice an immediate lift of energy in your body? Money is a wonderful expression of energy.” This is an inner game.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.” They’d say ‘Wow, that’s great!’ and the conversation ended shortly after.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. I believe leaders need to recognize this point to avoid allowing one individual to take away too much energy from the broader team. Thank you for sharing Mike!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Many other major financial institutions — Bank of America , Citigroup, HSBC, Barclay’s, Wells Fargo, UBS, etc. But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Manipulation of energy markets. LIBOR rate rigging.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). coal market.

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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. In Kenya, half of the population uses M-PESA , a mobile payments solution that doesn’t require a bank account. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

"Ten years ago we met in Saudi and said 'someday we'll be sitting in the middle of the desert talking about renewable energy.' The speaker was an academic at Sydney's University of New South Wales, and we met last week at a vast trade show in Abu Dhabi called the World Future Energy Summit. And here we are."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The risks in lower energy prices have a lot more to do with sustainability of some of the governments around the world that are really dependent on commodity revenues for their own legitimacy and power. The growth and energy demand in China is immense. They’re not going to stop doing that because energy prices are low.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The logic, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and banks like HSBC, is this: as the world migrates away from carbon-based fuels, trillions of barrels of oil and billions of tons of coal — the assets sitting on the books of energy companies — will become “stranded,” or worthless. Let’s quickly look at each.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. It was co-hosted by the Minister of Technology and included ministers from the cabinet charged with meeting the Grand Challenges IBM identified. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The uwezo program allows it to bring modern technologies to 4 million smallholders in Kenya. In general, catalysts: Approach innovation holistically, thinking not just about features and functions, but about new ways to raise market awareness, distribute, finance, and even organize. Activate resources beyond their immediate control.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Other top executives at the American Energy Innovation Council are pushing for more funding for alternative energy research. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. Others, such as the discovery of DNA, the human genome project and clean energy, benefit society more broadly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Technology may be heading toward self-driving cars and genomics-inspired medicine, but most people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. ” I’ve just finished writing a book about companies in pretty ordinary settings (banks, hospitals, even a parking garage) that have won big by doing truly extraordinary things.

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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. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). It made huge investments in new technology, new plant, and new personnel. inch vs. 3.5-inch 3 globally).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times. Become the organizational “glue” to deliver change. “If

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Banks, Knight says, tend to have low ROAs around 1%. Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. The energy-trading company had a very high ROA. Banks, for example, get as many deposits as they can and then loan them out at a higher return. Well, that depends again on your industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies. And the numbers these banks and academics are coming up with certainly help stir the souls (or wallets) of the investor community. We have no practice dealing with issues like this.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

seconds to 48 milliseconds," but that continuing efforts to soup-up trading technology have ceased to yield trading-cost savings for investors. But now, no competitor can get off the treadmill — every firm must continue to escalate the technology race or fall behind, and that means incurring new costs. cents to 3.8.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

There is also some banking, and media interests. There is also a technology outsourcing industry. And some important reforms of state finances haven’t happened. In particular, energy prices are still subsidized. That’s why they’re not quite as rich, because there wasn’t quite as much money to be made.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

It was hard not to notice, too, that by the end of Gupta's tenure — Firm rules limited him to three terms — major clients had begun to get into well-publicized trouble, most notably Enron, whose CEO had been head of McKinsey's energy practice. The temptation to look down on clients. Which can curdle into envying them.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Nevertheless, choosing between a bank deposit and stock investments may be a hard option for those knowing close to nothing about stocks. If you already know about stocks and you survey some promising companies (usually, big names in the technology sector attract new investors the most ), you can take a DIY approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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