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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly. The United States has played an enormous role in the expansion of these segments and is the world's largest generator of renewable energy outside of conventional hydropower.

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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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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. Because innovation requires it.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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Technology Cannot Replace Student or Teacher Teamwork

Great Results Team Building

The integration of technology into the hands of our students has been a topic of much discussion, but it will never replace the importance of teacher teamwork or the environment that a quality classroom provides. Whether by laptops, I-pads, smart-boards, or smart phones, your classroom has in all likelihood already been invaded by technology.

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