Remove 2001 Remove Energy Remove Finance Remove Goal
article thumbnail

Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

article thumbnail

How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. Production mostly came from small companies that possessed no scale economies.

Bond 8
article thumbnail

Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S.