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Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers

By Clayton M. Christensen, Suman ("Shuman") Talukdar, Richard Alton, & Michael B. Horn 9

Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.

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Retailing with Heart

By Suzie Boss 10

At Panera Cares cafés, there’s a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.

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It Takes Three to Tango

By Johan Van de Gronden 6

A European perspective on American civil society. A quick glance at the latest
thinking about not-for-profit management and philanthropy
reveals some profound differences between the ways American and
European practitioners look at today’s major societal challenges.

Sparking Water Innovation

By Tamin Pechet 1

The water we drink is not as safe as we’d like, and treating water has major environmental and economic impacts. We can no longer take water resources for granted.

Richard Morse, research associate at the Stanford’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, on the environment and climate change.

Environmental Sustainability and Development

Featuring Richard Morse

Richard Morse, research associate at the Stanford’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, discusses carbon offsets as a way to engage the developing world in climate change mitigation.