Category: Innovation, Heresy, Get Creative

The Smarter Mobility Challenge

I recently contributed to an interesting website/online discussion, built by CNBC and Harvard Business Review (and sponsored by Shell). The topic is Sustainable Mobility and it’s part of a larger series called “Energy Opportunities.”

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Our Future Business Leaders Are All About Green

Tucked into this year’s Fortune 500 issue is a short article on the annual Rice University Business Plan Super Bowl…If these entrepreneurs are our future business titans, then I’m feeling pretty good about where we’re headed…
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A Paradigm Shift in the Auto Industry

The auto industry is arguably going through the most significant change in its history. The race to a future filled with clean cars that use a variety of new technologies is on. So how are the big guys approaching this new world?
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Innovation in Managing Water

Last week we asked, “Is Water the Next Carbon?”. Although our short answer was “no,” we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water.

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Nike’s Open (Green) Innovation

One of the hottest concepts in strategy and management today is the idea of open innovation. Gone are the highly secluded R&D departments funded by a single company…In its place, in theory, are hubs of collaboration capturing ideas from customers, academia, or some guys in a garage somewhere.

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