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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

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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. Government officials need to focus on embedding energy innovation in effective industrial policy strategies to be able to turn innovation into competitive advantages.”. billion in 2001 to $20.1

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Complying with Family-Friendly Leave Policies Is Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

A managers’ challenge is how to take these “on the books” policies and move them beyond simple compliance to a place of executional excellence. In our work with employers, we find that when managers embrace new policies and regulations rather than grudgingly complying, they bring needed change to workplace culture.

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business Review

As one accountant based in Japan during 2010, explained , “there was a big rush of inquiries about schemes that might be used either to split out salaries or defer part of it.” As a result, when making close calls on the company’s financial reports, that auditor may be too deferential to Nissan management.

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. Globalization.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. The Economy in 2018. percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

As a percent of workers’ compensation, employers’ health care spending has held steady at between 8% and 9% since 2010. The proportion of workers with HDHPs (deductibles of more than $1,300/$2,600 for an individual/family) increased from 6% to 22% between 2006 and 2018.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. While after a period of policy adjustments and re-negotiation, much of the relationship with the EU may well remain intact, the endgame is uncertain — and there is a wide gap separating the worst and the best-case scenarios. billion as compared to $4.4