Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is also the only company in the finance industry to have bucked the trend of bringing gender parity in the boardroom. In a truly remarkable interview with Monique Herena, we talk about American Express’s The Ambition Project , leadership resilience, and what we can do to help women propel into leadership roles.

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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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal. housing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The list goes on. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness. In order to support corporate hackers like Atis and Windham and foster internal innovation, companies need to identify these individuals and understand what makes them tick.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

They’ve allowed the “You’re just lucky to have a job” post-recession mindset to linger and hamper innovation, and they’ve continued to marginalize anything related to flexibility as a “mother’s issue.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

If you love interacting with others but feel lonely, can you find ways to partner more on projects? These inspirational endeavors can even have unintended positive spillover effects at work, giving you energy and inspiration to craft your job or reengage with parts of work you actually like. Ignite your passion outside of work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Believing that improving housing for the world’s most poor could help them break out of the vicious cycle of poverty, we issued a challenge to the design community to employ the strategies of innovation and disruptive thinking to attack this persistent problem. What might a house-for-the-poor look like?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Yet a fundamental tenet of our project and the blog series about it is that slums present complex challenges that can't be fixed with a clever shack alone. From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Triple the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. The Fuse Corps executive fellowship comprises one month of intense professional development and eleven months working on a public sector project.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the same way, investments in landmark digital projects that significantly enhance customer experience can help launch wider digital transformations. To customers, the company feels as nimble and innovative as its digital competition, even though its back-end systems remain problematic. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2020

If the situation makes you invest in the short-term project to gain quick capital initially, you may later invest your ROI into a long-term project. This practice also makes you more disciplined while allowing you to acquire a moderate approach to spending (your money, time, energy, emotional, and physical resource).

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These allow you to work towards something specific in your career whether that’s a better job role or a project that inspires you. You, however, might prefer getting hands-on experience with a landmark project that you’d love to work on. Others are long-term and involve multiple stepping stones to get there.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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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! Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule. The HR Digest: C. Within C.H. Robinson will continue to help advance the supply chain around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

A recent study in the UK, for instance, shows that 3 out of 4 judges, 2 out of 3 doctors, 3 out of 4 finance directors, and 1 out of 2 chief executives come from fairly well-off families. The algorithm allows the company to “project” how the new hires will fit into the environment. What can be done about this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

“I had a front-row seat to over 400 commercialization projects, and the common cause for failure was that people were creating solutions for problems that nobody cared about. Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. That’s what we needed to change.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

It might also include political capital that arises from membership of or strong ties to a high status group such as the finance committee, a special task force, or the senior management team. Your best bet is to redirect the energy of a dysfunctional leader, either through reasoned argument or by appealing to their interests.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

He enjoys the autonomy to pursue moon shot projects, constantly strives for mastery in what he does, and has a strong sense of purpose. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust. Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town. Case study #1: Pausing to inquire.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Rather than a funding gap, there is a bankable projects gap : the projects themselves are not attractive to investors. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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