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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In In November 2012, I wrote an article for HBR about the emergence of returning professional internship programs across a wide range of sectors: for-profit, non-profit, military and academic institutions.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S. Nuclear on the outs.

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

But the startup could not keep pace with the development and scale of established battery makers, and production defects led to a $55 million recall in 2012 and contributed to the company’s bankruptcy later that year. The company developed lithium ion batteries that helped convince automakers of their value for hybrid vehicles.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

After Sandy raged across the eastern coast, Businessweek blared on its cover " It's Global Warming, Stupid." Individual companies are feeling the bite: analysts at Morningstar estimate that input costs at Tyson Foods will rise by $700 million — more than its 2012 net income. It wasn't just energy. and plug-in sales up 228%.