Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project. Marc Benioff.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Fostering innovation. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. But don't take it from me.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Ignoring these is a bit like putting enough energy into a leap to get halfway across a stream; it takes time and money but leads to an unhappy result. The McKinsey report on Big Data suggests the U.S. We figure it out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories. At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face. The good news: They’re responding “with pragmatism, energy, and ambition.” That a place like South Bend has been able to cultivate this kind of bottom-up innovation makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. As you design your hack or start to think about your innovation story, the first question to ask yourself is: does it tackle a root cause or a deeply embedded pathology of organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To answer these tough questions, we can turn to two of the world's best number crunchers, McKinsey and PwC (full disclosure: I have a consulting partnership arrangement with PwC US). 372 billion : China's budget for energy conservation and anti-pollution measures over the next few years. But constraints drive innovation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Many countries also committed serious funds to build a clean economy: Saudi Arabia pledged $109 billion for solar , Japan declared that a $628 billion green energy industry would be central to its 2020 strategy, and China targeted $372 billion to cut energy use and pollution. It wasn't just energy. In the U.S.,

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