How is it that a cool looking eco-friendly car will come to Hungary while the US is stuck with the Prius? Since when is there a fashion tax for trying to save the planet?

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Budapest (Hungary) – You wouldn’t expect the country of Hungary to be an automotive powerhouse, but it strongly [...]

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A lot has been written about the potential bubble in the clean tech industry with the influx of large amounts of venture capital and the emerging numbers of clean tech funds. Unlike the Internet bubble of the earlier part of this decade, the products and services from the clean tech industry solve fundamental problems with [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on June 24th, 2008

Social commentary on global warming from 30 Rock.

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Mervyn Alamgir on June 20th, 2008

Can you introduce new products into a segment that has no immediate pain and drive change in consumer buying behavior? No.
Global Warming falls into the category of problems that have no immediate pain to the consumer. This is not to say that Global Warming is not the largest social problem facing this and future generations, [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on June 18th, 2008

If you have ever been married, you know that you are not just marrying your spouse, but also adding their family and friends to your extended family. On that wedding day, you also introduce new demands on your time such as yearly visits to the in-laws, requests for grandchildren and an endless stream of [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on June 10th, 2008

I have read a few blog entries about the need to bring lunch in so that workers stay in the office. There is an opposing view that it doesn’t really gain the business much by providing free in-house lunches.
My personal opinion is that this type of activity by itself will not build or break a [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on June 4th, 2008

When you have an ocean liner running at pretty good clip and then throw on the brakes, you can imagine the impact on the ship and resulting waves. Then when you try to get the ship going again, it takes time to rev the engines and get momentum. No easy task.
I am in a similar [...]

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