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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.

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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. By answering these five questions: 1.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. The positions are there for the taking.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. In fact, few of us do. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F.

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