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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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. It's difficult to say.

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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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. The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent.

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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.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? 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.

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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. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. In fact, few of us do. The good news is that you can change that.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. Build a Re-Founding Team. Finally, you need to make change happen relatively quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Consider Brian Welle, a Google manager who needed to roll out a huge initiative to tackle the problem of unconscious bias in the workplace. In 2005, Dave Licher was a project manager for a large defense contractor. If people rely on your work output, you can impose conditions on how and when you’ll deliver it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

One reason for my fatigue is that The Energy Project has grown so rapidly during the past year. Managing our growth has prompted a whole new set of challenges. A 2005 study of 15,000 women found that the risk of depression diminished dramatically as they took more vacation. It was a costly mistake. That's not a complaint.

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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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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. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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