Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Let’s look at three investments — in wages, time and energy — that could reinvigorate the productivity cycle: Wages. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. Failed deals impose significant out-of-pocket costs (financial advisory fees and due diligence expenses) and take up a lot of management time and energy, distracting many senior managers from important line responsibilities.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

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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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

But acquisitions, unlike homegrown innovation, don't afford the luxury of multiple low-cost experiments — the sunk costs of an acquisition are too great. In 2005, News Corp was lauded for its $850 million purchase of MySpace — later sold off for peanuts. If it's the latter, you might want to reconsider.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

For instance, shoe-manufacturer Guangzhou Constant has relocated its manufacturing facility to Yongzhou in Hunan, lured by tax breaks and by the prospect of wage costs that are between 15% and 20% lower. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010.

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. But New Orleans offers both culture and an affordable cost of living. Most established startup hubs have image issues. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

FALK : In 1996, I picked up responsibility for our Energy & Environment group. We had already made a lot of progress in reducing energy consumption and water usage, improving forestry policies, and limiting air and water emissions, but my predecessor thought we should set some stretch goals for 2000.

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

After the initial rush of enthusiasm and energy, established routines and networks can smother the drive for innovation. After leaving GE, as the President and CEO of Aircraft Engines for three years, he spent five years as CEO of 3M, then left to become CEO of Boeing from 2005 to date. James McNerney, Jr is another example.

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CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. This is not a minor problem; 4 degrees could be catastrophic , the World Bank says , with significant risk of great suffering, extreme heat waves, declining food stocks, and severe economic costs.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. are at the lowest levels in almost 40 years, while American clean energy jobs grew by 110,000 last year. This year, the cost of new wind and solar generation dropped below the costs of coal and nuclear energy. Coals shipments in the U.S.

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Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Websites exploded with pictures and data, documenting the terrifying health and economic costs of the pollution: a drop in life expectancy of 5.5 years in the country’s heavily polluted north and an estimated $112 billion in labor and health care costs in 2005. This does not mean all civil society is dead.

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Environment Health Care Politics Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In many functional areas, such as plant maintenance, purchasing, sales calls, or accounting, more traditional structures and processes likely will deliver lower cost, more repeatable outcomes and more scalable organizations. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. Systematic Inc.,

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Agility White Paper How To Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A 130-year-old energy conglomerate, Black Hills doubled its workforce to about 2,000 employees after an acquisition. Like many energy companies, a combination of challenges — an aging workforce, the need for specialized skills, and a lengthy timeline for getting employees to full competence — created a significant talent risk.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. TMETC, which was established in 2005, got a big talent boost when Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008. Some TCS academic alliances in the U.S.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Here also, a crisis would make it necessary to relabel a lot of previous financial investments as sunk costs, while future investments and their returns should get re-assessed based on new, less favorable market realities. But, still only in his early twenties, he had plenty of energy left to make his first venture a success.

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Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

From distributed energy generation to 3D printing to crowdfunding to the Internet of Things and data analytics, all of these technologies enable us to provide what customers want, where, how, and when they want it. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

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Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Making costly requests will drain their energy. It takes time and energy to create original content and copying it without permission or not following rules set out in licensing policy is bad. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) That is not the identity that you want to build in the marketplace.

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Blog Licensing Newsletter Loyalty 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This was an automobile straight from Star Trek: powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the bulk of the energy system and battery sat on a low-slung "skateboard" design. A few months later, I found myself on a panel at MIT discussing America's energy future with a senior executive from British petroleum. About 150,000, he said. Yes, he said.

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Price Automotive GDP Energy 15

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 4, 2013

It would have taken more time, more money, more energy, more convincing to get it out of my head and into your hands. It seems simple now, but I had to take the plunge and embrace this new tool in 2005. In fact, if a tool like WordPress was not available, publishing the article that you are reading would have been a nightmare.

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Competitive Advantage Tools Content Blog 56

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. The company was in free fall.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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. 2 (2005): 447–504. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Shippers pursue clear (if hard to obtain) cost, profit, and service objectives, while the public sector’s objectives are always in flux, given the conflicting interests of constituents (including active opposition to new infrastructure projects). For all these reasons, we know the lack of alignment is not a new problem.

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

One reason for my fatigue is that The Energy Project has grown so rapidly during the past year. A 2005 study of 15,000 women found that the risk of depression diminished dramatically as they took more vacation. For the first time in many years, I didn't take a vacation during the winter. It was a costly mistake. That's not a complaint.

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Performance Review Follow-up Tactics Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Further, they rely on habits and routines to help them meet their own work demands, and so change—which disrupts those habits and routines, and forces people to engage in new, active, and energy-demanding ways—appears highly undesirable. In 2005, Dave Licher was a project manager for a large defense contractor.

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Hovland Sherif Company Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

Launched in 2005, ecomagination has always been a bit amorphous. GE always kept the program broad, including both flashier, clearly green products like wind turbines, and also more industrial, behind-the-scenes offerings such as energy-efficient motors. The company has reaped $160 billion from the program since 2005.

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Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011.

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McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. The cost of health insurance has risen by over 44% in the past five years.

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Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 10