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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. link] Scott Eblin Earlier this year, I spent an amazing afternoon with the wounded warriors at the Mologne House which is the long term lodging facility at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world.

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How Exactly Will We Move Away from Fossil Fuels?

Harvard Business Review

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. Renewables are a long way from dominating electricity enough to make fossil fuel energy a bad investment. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org

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How Quick Wins Can Become Stretch Goals

Harvard Business Review

The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge. Over the past several decades, my colleagues and I have seen the power of short-term stretch goals in almost every imaginable situation.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. coal market. Hundreds of financial executives gathered, including some heavy-hitters, from state comptrollers to executives from large pension funds to former U.S.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. That needs to change.

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New Lessons from Fighting an Ancient Disease

Harvard Business Review

While currently crippled by inadequate infrastructure in many countries, low- and middle-income countries will be the fastest-growing markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices over the next decade. What can the health care industry do to help fight disease, while still maintaining its commitments to shareholders? Redefine ROI.