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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

These technologies can be screened for their inherent disruptive potential — that is, their ability to transform existing markets or create new ones by radically simplifying, decentralizing, and lowering the cost of existing solutions. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. This change is just as threatening to established businesses as the process competitors Christensen identified, and just as difficult to respond to. Everything.