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Excess Inventory Wastes Carbon and Energy, Not Just Money

Harvard Business Review

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". But inventory is not a minor issue. I was wrong.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. °C (3.8°F) Getting to 1.5

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Sustainable Business Will Move Ahead With or Without Trump’s Support

Harvard Business Review

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. All of the signatories are meeting right now at the UN climate change conference in Morocco, and they’re making it clear that they are powering on.