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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. What differences do you note between the most successful organizations versus the mediocre? Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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How to Ensure the Success of a Position Your Company Hasn’t Had Before

Harvard Business Review

Sustainability programs are decentralized, so social and environmental initiatives are not viewed as top-down directives but are embedded in the routine activities of other functions. finance, mineral processing, geology). They leverage their discretion to successfully collaborate with internal (i.e.,

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

But these successes are not by mistake—they are the result of decades of collaboration between business, government, philanthropy, and community. Our research finds that successful collaborations begin with a common process, one that applies no matter whether you are a CEO, nonprofit manager, philanthropist, or public servant.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It is formed at conception and does not change.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business Review

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Consequently, the finance group, the risk organization, and the nonexecutive directors do most of this work. The finance group scrutinizes capital requests. Develop internal learning and reflection systems.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. To help develop a cleantech industry, the government should spend its money on fully incubated business models that have proven the ability to create a profit and that have demonstrated sustainable competitive advantage.