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. Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives.

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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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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. This helps both in terms of coming up with novel ideas for new businesses and also attracting the finance to help them to grow. ” Broad horizons. .

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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

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. Final Request… The strength of our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you are thinking these thoughts, you are creating an energy frequency, and therefore, a negative reality around them. Do you notice an immediate lift of energy in your body? Money is a wonderful expression of energy.” It is a word that mirrors an energy of growth and limitless living. This is an inner game.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.” They’d say ‘Wow, that’s great!’ and the conversation ended shortly after.”

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. Final Request… The strength of our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). I was wrong. As Robert F.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Make sure you have a project manager in place to mind the details and ensure the program doesn’t veer off course. Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients.

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Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Before jumping into the action, take time to set a clear goal. * * * Jeff Skipper is an international change leadership consultant for organizations in energy, finance, technology, and other industries. As CEO he grew a transformation services company to seven figures in just five years.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. If the divestment movement can reallocate capital toward clean technology companies, that could have a far greater impact on mitigating climate change than divestment alone.

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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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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

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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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The logic, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and banks like HSBC, is this: as the world migrates away from carbon-based fuels, trillions of barrels of oil and billions of tons of coal — the assets sitting on the books of energy companies — will become “stranded,” or worthless. Let’s quickly look at each.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

While we are surrounded by a wave of new disruptive technologies and apps, HR still hasn’t improved how it evaluates the prospective workforce. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. In the same way, investments in landmark digital projects that significantly enhance customer experience can help launch wider digital transformations. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. Your boss wants you to be: Relentlessly focused on making your numbers and completing projects or initiatives in a timely, responsible fashion. You should be.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

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. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact. We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5

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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

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Other top executives at the American Energy Innovation Council are pushing for more funding for alternative energy research. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. Others, such as the discovery of DNA, the human genome project and clean energy, benefit society more broadly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. Companies have spent enormous energy responding to the existential threat of new entrants.

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