Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. In today's resource-constrained environment, Western firms are feeling the growing pressure to " do more with less " — that is, deliver more value to customers at less cost.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Singer then made this argument: If we feel an obligation to save a child when the cost to ourselves is minimal inconvenience, we ought to feel the same obligation to save a child who is dying ten miles, a thousand miles, or 5000 miles from our home. Singer used 2004 tax figures to compute that if the top.01 Plainly the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For the past five years, we have examined how China swiftly moved from being a global bit player and net importer to the world''s largest manufacturer and exporter in capital-intensive industries where it had no labor-cost advantage. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. percent annually, while similar U.S. or European Union.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Chinese companies want access to energy, raw materials, and food that will support growth in their economy and in their customers’ needs—especially at the high end. That brought advantages of scale, such as lower costs and better integration across its businesses. producer of pork. The acquisition was a huge success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's easy for leaders in the North to underestimate their counterparts in the South, attributing their success to government support or low-cost labor, but such a viewpoint is narrow and risky. Successful leaders of the South have enormous energy, ambition, and business savvy, and they are aiming to compete everywhere on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Observers tend to overlook the "dream" talk and chalk up AB InBev's extraordinary success to its relentless cost cutting culture. In 2004, the European beer company Interbrew, itself a product of several mergers, acquired a majority stake in AmBev, creating InBev. Only one of them talks about cost cutting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Modern solid-state power electronics got started in the 1950s, but rapid recent progress in power semiconductors, new power conversion topologies, and methods for controlling electric motors has brought us a plethora of small, high-efficiency, low-cost, and long-lived electronics subsystems for motion control.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's easy for leaders in the North to underestimate their counterparts in the South, attributing their success to government support or low-cost labor, but such a viewpoint is narrow and risky. Successful leaders of the South have enormous energy, ambition, and business savvy, and they are aiming to compete everywhere on the planet.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

The following is a preview of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It by Etienne Deffarges. The result is high costs (literally trillions of dollars), poor results, deepening social inequality, and the erosion of public trust. Tom Brady and the “tuck rule.”. Wholesale changes must be contemplated.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Third, you need to locate key employees at the front line and promote them — as a source of knowledge and energy, and as a signal that the future will be about merit and open-mindedness. Build a Re-Founding Team. By 1993 the company had $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks. 2 (2004): 349–399.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. and Sandra Bullock the same night that Johnson Controls offers crackers in Cleveland and asks attendees to cover their own costs, which party will developers attend? Failure to share the surplus.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Only a company that produces a TBL is taking account of the full cost involved in doing business.” To be fair, some companies did move in this direction, among them Denmark’s Novo Nordisk (which rechartered itself around the TBL in 2004), Anglo-Dutch Unilever, and Germany’s Covestro.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

The nodding heads and half-mast eyelids are usually blamed on the energy-sapping process of digestion combined with a satisfied state of relaxation. No vending machine energy drink will fix the problem they are living with, and it''s a problem that adds up to an estimated $150 billion in lost productivity annually.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. made products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. We measure success by both win/loss, and also by being able to demonstrate that we've improved the campaign's percentage of the vote and cut costs. Definitely the scale.

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