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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

billion in 2018. In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018. After examining R&D spending across the world alongside 57 public energy innovation institutions, they found that energy funding grew from $10.9 billion in 2001 to $20.1

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap. This proved to be successful; the organisation won a transparency award for its 2018 EDI strategy. “As

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. The market for renewables is growing fast.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

Target raised its minimum wage to $11 this past fall and committed to $15 by 2020. Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. billion as compared to $4.4

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Where Both the ACA and AHCA Fall Short, and What the Health Insurance Market Really Needs

Harvard Business Review

The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). First, these insurance markets were distressed before the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. health care system.