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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco.

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. What China makes is generally low-priced, with razor-thin profit margins, is available from almost any emerging market supplier, and contains little distinctive or proprietary intellectual capital.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.