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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. Its projects encompass demand response as well as smart-meter, smart-home, and smart-garage projects. Sponsored by
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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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." 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
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Cut Costs Without Cutting Meaning
One of the most successful products to do this was the Panda , a three-door hatchback city car that Fiat created in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s and the economic downturn that followed. In reaction to the Great Recession and the forecasts that consumer demand in the US, Europe, and Japan will remain anemic for the foreseeable future, many companies are focusing on stripped-down "value" products. In doing so, they risk making a big mistake: Assuming that consumers in hard times care more about utility and low price and less about the emotional and social dimensions of
HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 11, 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. key lesson in this downturn is that during difficult times, consumers make purchasing decisions based on price. 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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  • Video: How to Market in a Downturn
    Jocz, and in the video interview above, John explains that companies need to rethink their customer segmentation, factoring in people's emotional response to the downturn. So you think you know your customers? Maybe you had a handle on them a year ago, but as the economy spirals downward you need to abandon old assumptions. Until now, you've probably been segmenting your customers
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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  • The Value of Role Models in the Downturn
    This downturn's survivors will be the role models for a new kind of business practice that is more socially responsible not as an add-on or after-thought but as a first thought at the core of its business operations. Seeking role models - not just benchmarks - is one way to find an upside in the downturn. This stimulates their creativity, It's hard to find many bright spots in the increasingly gloomy economy , but they're out there. Among big companies, IBM and Procter & Gamble are bright spots.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 2, 2009
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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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  • How to Monitor Your Brand 24/7
    Make a mistake like Ryanair's -- or Johnson & Johnson's offensive Motrin ads last winter -- and the response is brutal. The free site tracks these companies based on 25 topics, including job satisfaction, customer service, and social responsibility. Reputations are created and destroyed online in the speed of 140 characters. Here are seven tools to earn you a thumbs-up. Twitter
    Fast Company - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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  • Five Problems Venture Capitalists Should Have Solved (But Didn't)
    This is the second of two posts written to help kickstart the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab's "Upside of the Downturn" session. *** Business models for radical responsibility . That irresponsibility must become radical responsibility. Yet, Not convinced yet that the rot in the venture economy runs as deep as it does on Wall St? Then consider these five economic challenges, listed in order of significance, that venture capitalists have had a decade to resolve - but haven't.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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  • Waking Up from the 'Nightmare on Tech Street'
    As I've said before, the best response to the downturn is to work on stuff that matters ! ...Tags: Reading Om Malik's Nightmare on Tech Street piece, I wonder if we're actually just waking up from the nightmare. Yes, the abrupt collapse of demand for consumer electronics and their ilk will hurt tech companies--I'm bracing my own for the slowdown--but the icy bath that brings down a killing fever trades pain for gain. In
    OReilly Radar - Monday, December 22, 2008
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  • Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
    responded to every answer with the same response: During economic downturns, when it is critical to get more done with fewer resources, getting things half right will take you half as long and give you better results. There are times in life when I expect something to be perfect. When I open the box of my new Macbook Air, for example.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 2, 2009
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  • Getting the Response to Swine Flu Right
    Many companies have already activated pandemic response plans developed after the SARS and avian flu outbreaks in recent years. Corporate medical directors, who had been regarded at some companies as a luxury during the financial downturn, are suddenly indispensable in evaluating global flu developments and directing their companies' health and infection control best practices. The rapid evolution of the swine flu outbreak just happened to coincide with the annual American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC) in San Diego where I was scheduled to speak. Corporate medical directors from all over the world ended up scrambling between lectures as they frantically tried to follow the fluid situation and respond to their CEOs and crisis teams who were clamoring for details and direction.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, May 1, 2009
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  • Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction
    A few weeks ago, the folks at the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab invited me to help kick off their first event of 2009 - "The Upside of the Downturn ". Today's macropocalypse is a shockwave of crises - and the venture economy is responsible for one. Unfortunately, I was already booked to speak at NESTA's Webank . Since the VLab's events are awesome, here and in a related post are the comments I can't give in person - hopefully, they can spark some discussion both here and at the event.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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