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Why You Need to Align Your Business With the Biosphere's Rules
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5934BC-EService and Operations ManagementDon't use too many fossil fuels. Don't waste paper. For years, companies have been hearing what not to do when it comes to making their business practices more sustainable. But what can you do to make your company both ecologically responsible and financially profitable? Turn to the oldest model of efficient profit-making in existence: the Earth. The same principles that allow nature to continuously produce value are the same ones that will help ...Starting at €8.20
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Power Autonomy: Using the Biosphere's Rules to Renew Your Company With Renewable Energy
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5938BC-EService and Operations ManagementExcessive global dependence on fossil fuels is a zero-sum competition that can cost your business dearly. While scientists may disagree about the impact of current levels of climate-changing greenhouse gases, they are essentially unanimous that the forecasted increases will be environmentally ruinous-and potentially ruinous for your company's productivity and reputation. Just as plants carry their energy technology within their structure, your co...Starting at €8.20
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Building the Ecosystem: A Lesson from the Biosphere-Your Business's Green Growth Can Cause Creative Destruction in Your Industry
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5946BC-EService and Operations ManagementThe process of release and restructuring-of creative destruction-is what keeps the biosphere productive and allows it to fill even the most extreme environments. As you steer your business toward green growth, you may be undertaking innovations that can foster similar destruction in your industry. You don't have to wait for conditions to change, however, because business doesn't respond only to the external environment. This chapter outlines how ...Starting at €8.20
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Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8019BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn this chapter, the authors study four clusters of entrepreneurs whose technological ventures will improve the future for a growing proportion of the burgeoning human population. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World"Starting at €8.20
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Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8027BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter explores some of the more interesting trends in resource mobilization for social and environmental ventures, spotlighting various entrepreneurs and their experience and lessons learned. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World"Starting at €8.20
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Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8028BC-EEntrepreneurshipSocial and environmental entrepreneurs are learning to channel their convictions, boundless creativity, and ability to amass the necessary resources into building sustainable systems and structures that address the most pressing market failures of our time. In this chapter, the authors examine the three categories of business models that leading social enterprises seem to fall into, discussing the challenges and opportunities of each for mainstre...Starting at €8.20
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Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India
Khanna, TarunBook Chapter HBS-8036BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter examines connections forged between China and India over the last two thousand years and moves into the present to consider recent efforts to create commercial and political links between the two countries. This chapter is excerpted from "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours"Starting at €8.20
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Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond
Khanna, TarunBook Chapter HBS-8037BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter looks at how soft power-which arises from the appeal of a country's cultural and political practices-has won global influence for India, through the popularity of its film industry, international expansion by individual companies, and the soaring presence of yoga in the West, among other things. This chapter is excerpted from "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours"Starting at €8.20
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Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments
Khanna, TarunBook Chapter HBS-8049BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter illustrates how exchange does or does not occur in financial markets in China and India, profiling these countries' differing approaches to foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship. This chapter is excerpted from "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours"Starting at €8.20
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Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot
Khanna, TarunBook Chapter HBS-8050BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter considers differing attitudes to private property in China and India, and the effects of these attitudes on economic growth. This chapter is excerpted from "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours"Starting at €8.20