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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Given that some of these problems are rooted in people’s tendency to resist change, do newer firms have an advantage when it comes to creating the best new business models? Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. What makes one business model more attractive than another?

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Andrew Liveris.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity"). Its Common Threads campaign/business model questions consumption at its core.