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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. I wrote a couple of months ago about China's leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. And on and on.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. And on and on.

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

We spend too much time on email, have too many meetings, then struggle to find the willpower and energy to focus on what’s really important. The leadership at Slack used the process to decide between two fundamentally different marketing approaches. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. ANDREW NGUYEN/hbr staff.

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How Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. So are a lighting retrofit, a boiler overhaul, innovation to reduce energy use of your products, and much more. That’s exactly right.

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What's Wrong With America's Innovation Policies

Harvard Business Review

China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. We need a much more skilled business leadership than we have currently, capable of creating as well as managing. We need to refocus government investment into manufacturing, energy, and materials.