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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

Jessica Pettit – challenges assumptions about the type of people who drive change Justin Jones-Fosu – insight into the art and science of human engagement. Heather Younger – helps organizations create safe spaces and a culture of listening.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Scores on both surveys reset the benchmark inside the organization. A multidimensional approach to leadership development means encouraging leaders to make the intentional decision to step out of their comfort zones of competence.

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Women, Finance the World You Want

Harvard Business Review

When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home. Investing also finances the kind of world we want.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches.

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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

Two things determine whether a business can get off the ground successfully and sustainably: a validated market opportunity with customers willing to pay for a product or a service; and a product or service that addresses such an opportunity. For them the goal is to achieve customer validation, not financing. It remains to be seen.

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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. To gain market traction, retrofits need to be: Relevant (appropriate to their building).

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