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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 Driving the change.

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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 Thus it is with transformation.”

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. Any consumer or service company that doesn’t have a digital component certainly should; this is 2018, after all.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. in early 2018, according to Moody’s. In January of 2018, GE announced that it was taking a $6.2 in 2013 to 3.7

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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. Global rates of measles have dropped by 2/3 from 2000 to 2018. ” Forest areas have increased by 7% in France, from 26% to 45% in Nepal, doubled in Costa Rica, and China by 4.56 In April, the U.S.

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

Harvard Business Review

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled.

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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. trillion by 2020. Big goals were back.