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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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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

As of Aug 7 2018, Tesla’s market capitalization (USD 64.75B) exceeded that of BMW (USD 64.36B), despite BMW’s comparable production levels and deliveries of electric cars and significantly higher profits (net income of 10.3B for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). for BMW versus -2.7B

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Complying with Family-Friendly Leave Policies Is Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

Since 2010, the PPACA requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.” By showing your authentic commitment, you start to change the culture.

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Lose those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better

The Practical Leader

billion mÂł between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. Automakers have committed $225 billion for electric vehicles in the next five years. Global rates of measles have dropped by 2/3 from 2000 to 2018. Coals shipments in the U.S. In April, the U.S. did the same.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “Then get out of our stock.”

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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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