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Big business’s big innovation problem

October 21, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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To drive the environmental change the planet needs, industrial capitalism must transform itself, radically if not necessarily rapidly. Disruptive, breakthrough innovation is needed, on a mass scale. Government is failing us. Can business step up? Innovation is on my mind because I’m just back from the GreenBiz Innovation Forum, a two-day... [read more]

Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry

January 10, 2010 by Tom Raftery
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Photo credit filippo minelli There is no doubt about it but Google is a disruptive company. First Google disrupted search, then advertising, then video (with their acquisition of YouTube), and then Office applications with the launch and continued development of Google Apps for Domains. Most recently Google has disrupted the... [read more]

Al Gore at CGI: Capitalism Isn’t Just a Dirty Word

September 24, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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On day two at the Clinton Global initiative the big draw for the Eco-minded was Al Gore, presiding over a panel on Innovation. The panelists — former Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunis, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the Managing Director of The World Bank Group, and a surprisingly charismatic (if a little over energized for the Al Gore vibe... [read more]