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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets." The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. Simple answers don't count.

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Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Harvard Business Review

This is especially true in the commercial buildings market, specifically large commercial buildings, where well over 75 percent of existing buildings will still be in use in fifteen years’ time. Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them.

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