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Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

Strategy Driven

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. Display innovation can also be found in factory equipment, oil rigs, trains, trucks and boats and airplanes. These displays are still around in older conference rooms and home theaters.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

Kate Heiny, who very recently departed as the director of sustainability at Target, told the crowd at this summer’s sizable Sustainable Brands conference that: “With their words and wallets, our customers are asking for more [sustainable products].” That seems to be changing. And it’s not just happening at Target.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs.

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Dow Asks, What's the Business Case for Protecting Nature?

Harvard Business Review

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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How Office Dwellers Can Become Doers

Harvard Business Review

But there is a glimmer of hope for us Clickers, Copy/Pasters, Conference-Callers, and Collators. While you probably won't convince your boss that performing the Nutcracker in the conference room will help you close the Pepsi deal, there are ways to make almost any office job more stimulating and tangible.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business Review

According to executives surveyed by the Collaborative, access to difficult-to-find technical or functional expertise, speed, flexibility, and innovation are the top five drivers of using talent outside your organization. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.