Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). coal market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Is it likely that you would learn something "game-changing" at the conference last week? What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. Your company may be grappling with a disruption from a new technology such as the “internet of things,” artificial intelligence, or cloud-based computing. And managers aren’t helping. Monique Valcour.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. Design Conferences. The formula worked.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. Design Conferences. The formula worked.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." Similarly, you don't have to be an energy company or pulp and paper producer to focus on those resources; all companies use water, energy, and paper.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! These functions are like a nest of hungry sparrow chicks screaming for attention, mouths gaping!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

They were about signaling a credible commitment to Tesla’s purpose: to become a clean energy giant that helps address climate change by transforming mobility. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction. You, however, might prefer getting hands-on experience with a landmark project that you’d love to work on.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Many founders fall into the same trap: they focus all their energy and resources on building a product and finding customers, and when they come up for air, they realize that they need to raise outside capital. The average outside equity financing round, from the beginning of the roadshow to when the money is wired, takes six months.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? ” To his point, Einstein’s discoveries now play essential roles in technologies ranging from nuclear energy to computer technologies and GPS satellites.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as the energy and excitement from that first event fades, you’re left wondering: Now what? As one of my clients, a VP in a technology firm, told me recently, “Getting the parents’ group launched was easy. You’ve done everything needed to get this thing up and running. 2) There’s no template for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography.

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