N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. As a leader how can you make good decisions, set the vision and model behavior for something you don’t understand or participate in? Thanks for the great insights Rob.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. The Vosges-Haut Chocolat headquarters runs on 100% renewable energies. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. electrical energy consumption, and the U.S. cities integrate smart technologies into municipal buildings.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 17, 2018

Does having the latest technology take a bigger role than teaching children to be good citizens and to generously love others? You’re the parent, but if a goal is teaching children who in the future are generous adults you may have to consider some of the places you spend your energies and resources. Either answer is your choice.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Participating on such a team can be one of the most liberating, exhilarating experiences in life. Productive teams are not only fun to be a part of, they are also responsible for just about everything in our civilization, from technological advancements to architectural wonders to sports dynasties.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We recommend you pilot each element of your program, from the sign-in sheet to the evaluation form to the website where participants enroll in the program. Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The risks in lower energy prices have a lot more to do with sustainability of some of the governments around the world that are really dependent on commodity revenues for their own legitimacy and power. The growth and energy demand in China is immense. They’re not going to stop doing that because energy prices are low.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Smart cities have become more intricate ecosystems over time, with the degree and mix of private-sector participation varying from city to city. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities. Allocating our best talents to finance risks damaging the long-term innovative capacity of our economy. This is what the U.S. Markets will not generate enough innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

"Ten years ago we met in Saudi and said 'someday we'll be sitting in the middle of the desert talking about renewable energy.' The speaker was an academic at Sydney's University of New South Wales, and we met last week at a vast trade show in Abu Dhabi called the World Future Energy Summit. And here we are."

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 12, 2015

Does having the latest technology take a bigger role than teaching children to be good citizens and to generously love others? But, we also limited the number of outside activities our boys could participate in at one time. We also freely discussed our own finances in front of our boys. Bless with wants. They had plenty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

But we got returns on our investment as well: Our employees were proud of the company and eager to participate; the disaster areas provided some of the best training on how to solve complex dilemmas; and of course the reputation of the company improved tremendously. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact.

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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

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That's why I think the best thing we can do is to lead by example by making this not the focus of our energies, which I personally believe is more decisive than anything, and demonstrate instead how much more we thrive when we openly embrace and utilize our inherent diversity to our advantage. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Gwyn.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

From digital technology to business and financial models, we interact with the world by means of quantification. For example, we need nuclear reactors to solve some of our energy needs and to mitigate global warming. Any system that involves human behavior, like economics or finance, is inherently self-referential.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Individuals participating in the study identified factors that raise the productivity of remote work include fewer interruptions and distractions and the lack of stress from commuting or having a life need unmet. But to reap these benefits, it takes more than technology. Work cultures have to change too.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” And many employees don’t know where to begin in terms of managing the competing demands on their time and energy – whether because their managers aren’t supporting them, or because they’ve never learned to be strategic about managing the modern all-you-can-eat reality of work and life.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Emerging Roles and Technologies Stay attuned to emerging roles and technologies within the industry. Instead, energies can be focused on figuring out the logistics and viability of what the company needs.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

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 have been a student participant of teams my entire life – both healthy and unhealthy. Therefore, if we "lose" an argument we are somehow personally diminished.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Manipulation of energy markets. Participation in money laundering that helps drug smugglers or terrorists. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. Deceptive communication within the company and to the board. LIBOR rate rigging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. alone, according to the US.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction. Not every career path is suited to such global travel and perspective, but there are ways of introducing this element in your life in some small way or making it one of the main long-term goals of your career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. alone, according to the US.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

While participating in meaningful work and helping others is important to me, serving my family is what I dedicate my life to. I read that "don't ask an unconscious patient to participate as an active partner in the treatment" I don’t regret my work because I try to save other from some bad scenario.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2017

My starting point is the number of active participants in defined contribution plans, using the latest available data from the Department of Labor , which is 75.4 million participants. million participants x 25.1 Last, I estimate the percentage of participants who accept the automatic saving increases and do not opt-out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

And, they leverage network effects – the more participants on the platform, the greater the value produced. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. Having valuable interactions is the reason to participate on a platform.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

I count Five Forces of Disruption at work, with the two most powerful being the rise and fall of nations and the rise and fall of generations (the other three are global urbanization, the spread of social media technology, and planetary biostress through overpopulation and warming). Let's deal with the first two. The young in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

To help bring cool new technology to the world? Since the job is likely to entail “a reduction in your regular income” along with some form of “equity participation in this venture,” you need to understand the “probability of success” within a certain timeframe. To broaden your managerial repertoire?

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