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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I don’t have internet on my phone, don’t work on projects late at night or on weekends, and almost always take a real lunch hour. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. Mostly this has to do with living in Haiti. In the U.S.,

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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. The result will be innovation. A roundtable conversation with our advisers.

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Don't Hire Entrepreneurs; Hire Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. Sometimes it seems that everyone wants to be an entrepreneur.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers have developed a machine learning system to assess a task and identify whether it’s one that would be best performed by a human expert or technology. Task management. around its introduction.”