Recent Activity

Filter by:

All

• 

  HPA Perspective on Sustainability: FAQs – 5 This is the fifth in a series of 6 posts on our perspective on sustainability. Our first post focused on our definition of sustainability and the second explained what we mean by ’social relevance’, ‘environmental responsiveness’ and ‘economic viability’. The third dealt with the notion of ‘Common Good’ in contrast to ‘Self-Interest’, and why the pursuit of the [...]

  3 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  Can Innovation Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage? Guest post by Nilesh Khare -- Doctoral Candidate (Strategy) at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University -- in response to my LinkedIn question: Does Innovation give an enterprise a sustainable competitive advantage if their competition is also doing it?

  4 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  That Old Debate Again: Profit Vs. Purpose McKinsey & Co. launched a website called “What Matters” some time ago, where they aggregate “knowledge derived from convening some of the best thinkers from around the world” (in their words). “The Debate Zone” under their “Social entrepreneurs” section recently featured the topic “Should social entrepreneurs adopt the language and practices of business?” with expert opinions presented on [...]

  4 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  HPA Perspective on Sustainability: FAQs – 4 This is the fourth in a series of 6 posts on our perspective on sustainability. Our first post focused on the HPA definition of sustainability while the second explained what we mean by ’social relevance’, ‘environmental responsiveness’ and ‘economic viability’. The third dealt with the notion of ‘Common Good’ in contrast to ‘Self-Interest’, and why the pursuit [...]

  5 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  HPA Talk: CleanTech Mentoring Workshop [Text of a talk delivered at the 'CleanTech Mentoring Workshop' on March 19, 2010 aimed at introducing HPA and outlining the scope and nature of our advisory services] Good afternoon! First, let me thank TiE Mumbai, CII and New Ventures India for hosting this event and for inviting me to talk about who we are and what [...]

  5 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship: Grassroutes [Content sourced from Inir Pinheiro, the social entrepreneur behind Grassroutes, and edited by Hemant Puthli] India’s remote villages are now attracting city dwellers who are eager to step away from the stress zones of their office cubes and the complexities of urban life, in search of clean air and a simpler, earthier way of life – if [...]

  5 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! (source: TED) At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

  6 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  HPA Perspective on Sustainability: FAQs – 3 This is the third in a series of 6 posts on our perspective on sustainability, and deals with the notion of ‘Common Good’ in contrast to ‘Self-Interest’, and why the pursuit of the Common Good leads to better sustainability. Our first post focused on our definition of sustainability while the second went in details on what [...]

  7 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  Does Your Start-up Need to Grow Up? Over the last decade or so, the heady blend of technological innovativeness and entrepreneurial drive, fueled by quantum leaps in the price/performance of computing and telecom products, has resulted in an exponential increase in the number of technology-centric start-ups. At the turn of the century, the spike in Y2K business and the concurrent boom in dot-com [...]

  7 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  Key Business Technology Trends and Themes It’s that time of the year again — as the holiday season approaches and the calendar year draws to a close, everybody is out there, trying to assess the year that was and trying to forecast the year that will be. In keeping with that tradition, we have put together a list of trends and themes [...]

  8 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation
• 

  HPA Perspective on Sustainability: FAQs – 2 This is the second in a series of 6 posts on our perspective on sustainability, and deals with a set of questions around what we mean by ’social relevance’, ‘environmental responsiveness’ and ‘economic viability’, and how vital it is for businesses seeking a path to prosperity to aim at these goals. (The first post in [...]

  9 months on
  Sustainable Business Transformation