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Most Innovative Companies - Energy
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. Construction has begun on a project to solar-tile the roof of San Francisco's largest reservoir -- the size of 12 football fields -- to generate 5 MW of solar power. Sponsored by
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Why Leadership Development in Asia Is Better Than in Europe
Much of the focus in this part of the world is in developing and preparing the next generation of leaders through selection, talent development, and accelerated development opportunities. 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 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
HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 8, 2010
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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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  • 6 Lessons Learned in the Downturn
    Over some good Italian cuisine and syrah in Boston's North End , we enjoyed a stimulating evening as Eric Hellweg, Managing Editor of HarvardBusiness.org, moderated a discussion centered on the question of key lessons learned in the economic downturn. This means businesses and business models that can generate superior cash flow relative to their peers will be the ones that have the best long-term staying power. 2. Last week we held our Annual Meeting for my firm, Cue Ball, and as part of it we gathered our investor members for a stimulating dinner discussion with HBR editors Eric Hellweg and Katherine Bell, and group publisher Josh Macht.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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  • Reward Older Workers With What They Really Want
    According to a new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, " Bookend Generations: Leveraging Talent and Finding Common Ground, " 62 percent of working Boomers expect to stay in the labor force in their so-called "golden years." Not surprisingly, the economic downturn and its devastation to 401(k) portfolios is a major reason in the determination not to ditch the job; more than half of Boomers in our national survey plan to delay retirement by nine years as a direct result of savaged retirement savings. It's Labor Day. Do you know who your workforce is?
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 4, 2009
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  • Three Opportunities to Seize in the Downturn
    One of the most pernicious tendencies companies fall victim to in downturns is to focus on and project out near-term data points. In this downturn, cash may have been promoted from king to God. Our message to our companies therefore is to ensure sufficient cash on the balance sheet and cash flow generation. The result? An inaccurate reflection of the future.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, February 20, 2009
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  • Thanks, Gen X, for the Conversation
    The third book in the trilogy I've written to the generations is published this month. Even more so, I found writing to a generation, rather than about a generation was a real challenge. I have tried to write each book in a way that conveys the respect and admiration I came to feel for each generation. What's Next, Gen X? draws heavily on perspectives and ideas many members of Gen X generously shared on this site. This is a big month for me. And since many of you have contributed ideas to the discussion here over the past three years — and
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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  • Will the Next MBA Grads Take More Risks?
    The economic downturn has embarrassingly made me much more conservative about my plans for the summer. Tags: Career planning Financial crisis Generational issue Who cares what games we choose...little little to win, nothing to lose. So goes the chorus of the Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 #1 hit song, Incense and Peppermints.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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  • Look for Leadership at the Bottom of the Pyramid
    In fact, each time the world heads into an economic downturn we see soul-searching begin on the quality of leadership. These Sure, the magnitude of the downturn is far greater now than it has been seen in recent times. The next generation does not respond to autocratic signals such as these. The professors of doom are pitching their tents once again on the pegs of a " leadership crisis. " This is nothing new.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, January 9, 2009
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  • Forrester: "The Tech Spending Downturn is Over"
    A new report released today by Forrester Research is calling the tech downturn of 2008 and 2009 "unofficially over." "Coming It's not a simple rebound from a downturn." As the economic downturn ends, we can expect to see a rebound in mature technologies as repairs and purchases that would have normally been made were put on hold until the economic situation looked more promising. Coming out of a lousy 2009, 2010 is looking a lot better," said Andrew Bartels, the report's author. "We We see 2010 as the first year in a multi-year growth cycle.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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  • Is Your Company Brave Enough to Survive?
    As a professor of strategy, lately I've been getting asked quite a lot, "What can our company do to survive the downturn?" And an economic downturn is like winter in Alaska; many animals can live a happy life in Alaska all through spring, summer, and fall, but when winter comes, it's not a great place to be. But I do think there are a few survival techniques from looking at firms' downturn survival strategies, although they are not for the faint-hearted. I'm sorry, but the real answer is, "Not a lot." The market is Darwinian: the strongest ones survive.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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  • Why Ideals are the New Business Models
    It's the worst downturn for the better part of a century: business model redesign - lower costs, greater efficiency, choosing the most profitable customers and revenue streams - should be every boardroom's first priority, right? That's the challenge of a new generation of revolutionaries. Take your pick: newspapers , autos , mobile , solar - across the zombieconomy, boardrooms are sweaty-browed with the task of business model redesign. Nothing could be more wrong.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, March 13, 2009
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  • How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet
    In addition, the Internet indirectly generates economic activity that takes place elsewhere in the economy. In addition, larger companies in this sector, such as Cisco, Google, or Adobe, have been a haven of relative stability through the current economic downturn and boost the U.S. The economic downturn is accelerating consumer interest in social networks and online communities as a source of support. Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced . Back then, pioneering
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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