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Most Innovative Companies - Energy
It also raised $22 million in a trust, from consumers and corporate partners such as Citigroup, Office Depot, REI, and HSBC, for its clean-energy projects, issuing renewable-energy credits in return. The world's wind leader was not immune to the downturn, with a slowdown in the rate of profitability growth, but it's still expanding and gaining on a "Triple 15" target: 15% operating earnings on revenue of 15 billion euros by 2015. Sponsored by
Fast Company
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Cleanteach: Can David Learn to Love Goliath
He underscored the growing interest of corporate giants, with Google alone responsible for two of the largest three cleantech deals last year. We are seeing a shift from cleantech-focused venture capitalism to cleantech-oriented M&A, accelerated by the fact that the downturn has ensured there are "a lot of cheap assets on the chopping block."
Several major corporations used the Forum to trail their cloak, among them Boeing, Coca-Cola Traveling around Silicon Valley last week, I heard the David vs. Goliath story over and again, but in surprisingly different versions.
Fast Company
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Why Leadership Development in Asia Is Better Than in Europe
The first is the attention to the specific development needs of the individual leader coupled with corporate needs to produce an agenda that generates strong leaders. The need for Latin American leaders to help companies rebound from the global downturn and drive sustained growth is among the top issues for the region. A shift in leadership development has occurred. While it used to be that American and European companies had cornered the market on developing the leaders of tomorrow, our latest round of research shows that Europe is now second to organizations in Asia Pacific,
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 8, 2010
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How Corporate Responsibility Can Survive the Recession
Corporations engaged in recession-driven cost-cutting are trimming or eliminating corporate responsibility initiatives. Though corporate survival is key and consumer skepticism of business CR initiatives at an all-time high, such actions are short-sighted. Critical cross-border global issues require multinational corporations and their CEOs to lead in the search for solutions, recession or not.
Now more than ever, businesses need to be saying "yes" rather than "no" to their social responsibilities.There are five key reasons:
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HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Jugaad: A New Growth Formula for Corporate America
Frugal innovation is a hot topic today as post-downturn corporate America looks for ways to do more for less, while serving broader markets. We strongly believe that entrepreneurs and corporations in the West — as they emerge from the economic recession — can also benefit from the Jugaad mindset as they seek to innovate and grow in a resource constrained business environment. We will discuss in future posts This will require practicing the gutsy art of Jugaad . The Hindi term roughly translates as "overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, January 25, 2010
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Q & A: Jane Wales on Global Philanthropy
The downturn] makes it absolutely necessary for public, private, nonprofit, and philanthropic groups to come to a shared view of what constitutes success--and how best to communicate that view to the appropriate stakeholders. HBR: It does seem like a "perform storm" moment for social change initiatives: the global downturn, a new administration, the convergence between private and public sectors...
This week in Washington: the eighth annual Global Philanthropy Forum . Jane Wales is co-founder of the forum, the director of the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation at
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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Downturn In India Takes Uneven Toll
Effects vary within the corporate sector, while government actions to restore confidence may take time to succee
Forbes.com: News
- Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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In the Talent War, the Ceasefire Is Over
With so many companies focused on simple survival during the downturn, with so much job loss and anxiety among those who survived, it was easy to forget about the war for top talent. But the downturn was just a temporary truce; the battle is about to erupt again in full force. Companies that did a clumsy job of managing cost-cutting and restructuring during the downturn are particularly at risk And ironically the companies are the most at risk of losing their best leaders are ones that responded most vigorously (but often misguidedly) during the recession.
Why?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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How Would Walt Disney Market in 2009?
Walt Disney initially funded both Disneyland and Disneyworld out of his own pocket, and then sold them back to the corporation because they did not want to take the first risks. I am optimistic that this downturn will cause people to do more with less. Walt Disney, the man, was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and told them in sizzling new ways that shaped memorable experiences.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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The Best Way to Measure Company Performance
Excessive debt leverage becomes a significant albatross for a company when market demand for its products heads south, as many companies discovered during the current economic downturn. If underlying profitability continues to deteriorate, more stock buybacks or debt leverage will be necessary to maintain return on equity, further increasing company exposure to unanticipated downturns in consumer demand or financial market crises. Most Wall Street analysts and investors tend to focus on return on equity as their primary measure of company performance. Many executives focus heavily on
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Business of Learning
And learning departments need to do more with fewer resources . If you are inside a corporate learning department, assuming you still have your job, then you feel this by being more busy. You have fixed overhead. Temporary Downturn or Changing Landscape? While the market is tough right now, there are some people who believe that learning businesses who sell classroom, virtual classroom and courseware training will rebound once the economy rebounds. This is a very strange time. While increasing amount of concept work and the pace of change puts a premium on learning,
eLearning Technology
- Monday, June 15, 2009
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Laid Off Employees Turning to Cybercrime
In what appears to be a growing trend, displaced employees are turning to cybercrime using their corporate data access to steal, exploit and damage information networks, and may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally according to a new study from McAfee and Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
The report , Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information was released last week at the World Economic Forum and suggests that the economic downturn is increasing the security risk for corporations with 42 percent
ReadWriteWeb
- Sunday, February 1, 2009
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http://joshbersin.com/
Filed Under: Enterprise Learning , LMS, LCMS , Learning On-Demand | Tags: learning management systems , lms 2009 | Today, at our IMPACT 2009 Research Conference, we released our 2009 Learning Management Systems research which details the pivotal changes taking place in the market for corporate learning platforms. This market has grown to $817 Million (projected for 2009) and continues to grow despite the economic downturn. Search: About Us LMS 2009 Research Released Posted on April 15th, 2009 .
joshbersin.com
- Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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