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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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Job Growth Depends on Reducing Entrepreneurial Risk

Harvard Business Review

They do not decrease the cost to the entrepreneur if his venture fails. Reduce the upfront costs of starting a high-potential business. Instead of manipulating the tax code to encourage startups once they are profitable, we should do everything we can to remove these early costs in the system. Lower the cost of failure.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. Second, the actual cost of a guarantee is only the cost of the losses, giving these kinds of programs the ability to deploy large volumes of capital.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. Indeed, many of the gleaming facilities are crying out for the throngs of people and energy that most characterize the very best innovation hubs around the world.