Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

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Press Release Discount Education Transportation 157

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 17, 2024

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at an international climate negotiations conference. “A recent global survey asked 100,000 16- to 20-year-olds about their attitudes to climate change. Really — MIT Technology Review.

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Crisis Media Review Survey 52

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It was originated by the energy company Eesti Energia and developed a four-step methodology to engender an entrepreneurial mindset in students ranging from 13 to 19 years of age. The Global Innovation Index illustrates this, as they cite the inhibiting impact a shortage of human capital is having on the innovation potential of the nation.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Human Capital Comparison Education 124

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Setting the numbers aside, employers also expend a lot of time and energy in onboarding and training a new hire. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees. Employees stay with organizations that care about them and help them grow.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Pixar could see these guys were driven to make great films but knew they didn’t have access to the kind of technology Pixar had so they went after them. Focusing on profit first would lead to compromising the purpose and sucking the passion and energy out of the organization. When Pixar focuses on making great films, profit follows.

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Competitive Advantage Film Creativity Open-book 285

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. There is also a supportive regulatory environment that has helped fintech innovators to emerge. Digital dominance. Our mission is to bring tech ‘makers’ (i.e.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

On a Friday at lunchtime, get employees together in a conference room for pizza and salad or go outside of work for an informal lunch and time to mingle. There was a terrific energy among group participants. Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. What a simple idea!

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Decentralization McCarthy Godin Conference 218

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? I’d rather spend 45 minutes working through a video conference with a CEO or GM than have a two-hour traditional conference call.

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Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. our new vision" of growth and innovation. Note: I'd do both!).

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Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. But he's not alone in the judgment that we're not actually living in an era of great innovation. but the emerging markets boom has generally been more about catching up than exploiting cutting-edge technology.). Or something like that.

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Stephenson Innovation Biotechnology eBook 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. For example, the U.S. They’re not exactly legally binding.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

He argues more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced by some non-repeatable breakthroughs (including fundamental technological triumphs) has been plucked. An impassioned counterargument comes from Erik Brynolfsson and Andy McAfee of MIT, who reject the premise that technology’s big leaps are all behind us.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology – social media specifically – allows for constant communication, but easy communication doesn’t necessarily translate to messages that are received, understood, and capable of driving action. Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas.

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Tips Audience Newsletter Armstrong 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When corporations create shared value they increase their profits and create greater social impact, resulting in powerful transformations and innovations in both business and society. Audi believes that in order for the car to be truly carbon neutral, it needs to be manufactured using only renewable energy.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Your employees and your customers want to be engaged on a very personal level, and not just through a survey or an annual conference. Examples of Social Nations are everywhere.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Urban physicists are applying this research to reimagine a number of concepts, including the energy efficiency of city buildings, infrastructure conditions, and emergency detection. Groupon’s tiki bar “conference room” acts both as an escape from work and as a space that encourages innovation. Find your feng shui.

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Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

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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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” My 2-year-old son, Harry, valiantly contributed a range of squiggles, which I suppose represented waves of karmic energy.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 8

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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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The future doesn't happen in the corner office or the conference room.

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Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

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. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Design Conferences.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

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. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Design Conferences.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The room had the organization’s top sixty leaders of a large technology services company. The talk of driving collaboration and innovation was just that – talk. Where they will break down silos and drive greater innovation, collaboration, and performance. Guest post from Vince Molinaro, Ph.D.: It was a tough day.

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Human Capital Commitment Discount Conference 244

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

The vast majority connected via email, phone, or conference calls even though 72% said video would make teamwork easier. And 43% feel confused and overwhelmed by the mishmash of collaboration technology at their disposal. Don’t allow multitasking: Research shows that multitasking during conference calls is extremely common.

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Team Conference Forrester Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

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Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. In addition to using less energy to run machines, slashing paper use also saves large amounts of energy and water upstream in the paper production process. And the sustainability story is significant.

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Over the last few years, Dirk began to realize that the business model for wholesale distribution was dramatically changing as manufacturers increasingly sell direct to consumers, and large firms like Amazon and Grainger use their technology and scale to squeeze out the traditional middlemen. As he says, "It's the right thing to do.".

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Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

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. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

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. If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects.

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Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. At the Center for Talent Innovation , we have constructed a unique, robust framework for measuring the things that matter. Authenticity.

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Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

We have a number of expert groups, cutting horizontally across the organization, that serve as focal points for building knowledge in specific areas, such as healthcare or energy. Conferences: frog staffers participate in over 200 conferences and workshops each year. He can be found on Twitter at @Richardsona.

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Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

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! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Younger generations will bring fresh insights and energy, but older generations must bring the wisdom that comes from lives rich with experience and perspective.

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Freedman Leadership Class Hotels 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

And how much of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions do you think international transport really produces? Estimates indicate (PDF) that international shipping causes 2-3% of energy-related CO2 emissions (PDF). Since the bulk of internationally-traded merchandise travels by sea, shipping should be the first port of call.

Globalization 12

Globalization Transportation Cooper Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

What's important about HP is what it says about how hard it is for any organization to maintain its leadership position from one generation of technology and markets and culture to the next. As the cofounder of a magazine called Fast Company , I've always been struck by the slow-going rate of change inside most organizations.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14