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What are the Best Green Business Ideas?

Strategy Driven

This includes taking tourists to participate in conservation-projects or creating eco-friendly accommodation, such as hotels that have solar-powered electricity. However, many people are looking for ways to travel in an eco-friendly way and participate in sustainable activities, from hiking to kayaking.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Is It Heresy to Make Salespeople Pay Their Expenses? An HBR Management Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Like HBR's traditional case studies, HBR.org's Management Puzzles are based on academic research into business problems. Tania Temple paid for the CEO of Shelston Chemicals and his whole entourage to spend the day at a NASCAR event.

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New Research: Where the Talent Wars Are Hottest

Harvard Business Review

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. If, in addition, companies are managing their underperformers out poorly, the costs rise even further. Global business Talent management'

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management.

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

Harvard Business Review

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.