The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2021

Such calls for more financial support for startups are not new, with former EU research commission Carlos Moedas arguing for an EU-run venture fund back in 2015, which eventually became the European Innovation Council (EIC) this year. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Proposal Media 116

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

While the finances of employees may seem like none of an employer’s business, new research from the University of Pittsburgh suggests it is perhaps something employers should pay attention to. The last few years have seen a renewed focus on poverty, and especially on poverty for people who are in work.

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Organization Finance Energy Stress 93

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. The only thing that spinning a bunch of plates insures is that you expend lots of energy in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 3, 2015

Sunk Costs: money you spent that can’t be recovered… salvaged. This month, I’ve been working with a few companies struggling to walking away from sunk costs. Sunk costs are sunk. Put your energy, time and resources into opportunities for growth, into potential launch missions. So, guess what?

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Finance Cost Energy Resources 70

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 288

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Positive Attitude : To the one, the best leaders I’ve ever known all smile, listen, engage, have a positive outlook, and have a high energy level. I think loyalty cost us nothing, yet delivers great reward to a team. Recognition takes no skill and costs nothing. I would like to add one. Your post are always eye-opening.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Casting one’s mind back to the days when companies used to follow the mantra laid down by economist Milton Friedman and focused their energies solely on maximising the returns for shareholders, and it seems an altogether different era. Use this fresh perspective to attempt to innovate around the trade-offs.

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Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 76

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving." mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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Efficiency Blog Brand Depreciation 354

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

But few governments appear to have the money or the political will to foot the up-front costs to prevent or fight fragmentation. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Further Reading.

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Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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Energy Price Long-term Banking 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. In most cases simple can be translated as realistic, cost effective, quick to adopt, and fast to implement. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. Thank you for sharing Mike! I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy? I Think Not.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. As I said above, your yield usually directly correlates to your efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Cost-conscious consumers can access incredibly affordable, often inventive solutions.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event. The common fundamental ingredients for success identified by the speakers were: resilience, agility, creativity, innovation, care, evolution, enthusiasm, and passion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In article called "The Rising Cost of Faster Trades," The New York Times reports that "the time it takes to execute a trade on the New York Stock Exchange's most popular platform has dropped from 3.2 seconds to 48 milliseconds," but that continuing efforts to soup-up trading technology have ceased to yield trading-cost savings for investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

We should not take our eye off the really important ball: economic growth and the innovation process that underpins it. A significant part of innovation and almost all of commercialization is driven by profit incentives and relies on a system of protection for the intellectual property rights of innovators and entrepreneurs.

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Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

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. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average. But New Orleans offers both culture and an affordable cost of living.

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. Collectively, those diseases account for more than 86% of our healthcare costs. Stress in the workplace costs the U.S. His energy levels and sleep improved. In the U.S.,

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Stress Wilde Media Uncertainty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

More entrepreneurs are thinking small, because the costs to starting a company have fallen so dramatically that there is now a whole new class of entrepreneurs creating companies. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. What gives?

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