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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

” New markets According to UNCTAD, the green technology sector has the potential to create a market worth over $9.5 Green frontier technologies, such as electric vehicles, solar and wind energy, and green hydrogen, are projected to attain a market worth of $2.1

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. I believe leaders need to recognize this point to avoid allowing one individual to take away too much energy from the broader team. Thank you for sharing Mike!

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. After all, some of the world’s urban markets are larger than entire nations. That mandate is worth keeping.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

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. We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. But few are held accountable.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Peak Globalization

Harvard Business Review

Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global populations. In short, the tide of globalization washing across boundaries for so long has reached a peak and is receding.

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Rescuing Capitalism from Itself

Harvard Business Review

Consider all the member-owned cooperatives. alone, with 320 million people, has 350 million cooperative memberships. Yet this sector gets lost amidst the great debates over left versus right: private sector markets versus public sector governments. Some are owned by members, others by no-one. Have you ever even heard of it?)

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