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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. Indeed Brian Moynihan, Bank of America’s CEO, and Darrin appeared side by side on “ Mad Money ” on CNBC touting their new partnership. And it caught Professor Henderson’s eye.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2019

Leading Blog

These organizations tend to lag behind in innovation, discretionary effort, morale and ultimately performance. Henderson and Barry C. I started to see that many of the struggles that organizations face exist simply because their leaders were playing with a finite mindset in an infinite game.

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World Innovation Forum - The Pressure to be Insightful

CEO Blog

I am spending the day in NYC at World Innovation Forum. Michael Martin- Marketing and Strategy (a high interest topic for me) Rebecca Henderson - ( Co-director of the Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard) Building sustainable Organizations Daniel Pink (one of my favorite authors/thinkers) And lots more.' He is speaking now.

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Sustainable Business - Good for Business

CEO Blog

At World Innovation Forum, Harvard''s Rebecca Henderson spoke about sustainable business. She used one of my favorite phrases - "Change is Opportunity" and she did emphasize that change is happening. She recognized that businesses need business cases in order to fully embrace environment and sustainability.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. Whelan : Most of the CEOs did talk about policy in the interviews, but their statements were pretty vague. Future Economy. Future Thinking.

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The Future Economy Project

Harvard Business Review

We’ve enlisted prominent thinkers and leading CEOs who understand that sustainable business practices are in a company’s long-term interests. Chairman & CEO, Salesforce. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. CEO & President, Walmart. Chairperson & CEO, PepsiCo. CEO, Unilever. Indra Nooyi.

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A Partial Defense of Our Obsession with Short-Term Earnings

Harvard Business Review

HBS professor Rebecca Henderson , along with Hazhir Rahmandad of Virginia Tech and Nelson Repenning of MIT, set out to explore that apparent contradiction. I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Henderson: To answer that, I need to tell you about two different research interests. It can be done.