Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent). How can they afford not to?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Escalating healthcare costs — due in part to the explosion of chronic diseases among Americans — are expected to account for 20% of U.S. GDP by 2020. housing sector.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Access to global markets. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Higher sales.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. For example, the Pittsburgh-based University Energy Partnership is working with the Energy Department''s National Energy Technology Laboratory and URS Corp. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2015

Where cost considerations preclude all partners from being utilized. To succeed, it needs to be more than an advertising and direct marketing campaign. Business relationship building is considered an ongoing process, not a "once in awhile" action or marketing gimmick. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Let’s look at three investments — in wages, time and energy — that could reinvigorate the productivity cycle: Wages. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Aside from these three broad worries, directors are also anxious about corporate tax rates, political instability, and healthcare costs. In response to our survey in late 2015, they told us that on economic matters, uncertainty abounds. Directors of healthcare companies are particularly concerned about healthcare costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Embrace renewable energy. °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Getting to 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What are the costs and benefits of self-disruption at that uncertain stage? electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one. These are rarely studied questions. A rare natural experiment. and international electric utilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The cost of sensors, processing power, and bandwidth to connect devices has dropped low enough to spur widespread deployment. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 The repercussions span industries and regions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Bye-bye to the clunkier and more costly PC.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

And it would take them as long as 5 to 10 years to explore, develop, and then bring production to market after investing billions of dollars into new fields. lifted the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil, and the maiden shipments are finding their way to global markets allowing U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax carbon or invest in clean energy because "China's not doing anything.". And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 In the case of GE, unsurprisingly, all the acquisitions and divestitures (plus the massive cost-cutting) of the past several years haven’t improved performance. GE stock was trading at $25.47 per share.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. The United Nations reports that the world population is expected to grow from 7.6 billion to 9.8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

A Body of Work takes time, energy, resources and lots of heart to produce. They will see you as the low-cost provider. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. We train people to be trustworthy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Hystra Consulting, which works with businesses and social entrepreneurs, studied 280 ICT4D projects and found that 136 relied completely on donor funding to cover their operating costs, while 35 were partly subsidized. Costs are low because each school has just one employee, who uses a tablet with tailored content.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Yet, in countries with national health benefits, free childcare, low-cost higher education, and robust social safety nets, working as an independent freelancer is great, and it is easier than ever with new, Internet-enabled platforms. “Choose the full-time job with benefits!” ” parents urge their children.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

But since there’s no way Nissan could address the goal solely through its products, it also propels creativity in marketing in order to change how all of us drive. A surprising number reach for deep changes in the world, going well beyond the expected and narrower kind of goals like “reduce energy use 10%.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In fact, handwashing with soap is one of the most effective and low cost ways to reduce what are two of the biggest causes of child mortality. This opportunity is even more marked because of the very rapid pace of change in these emerging markets. Secondly, it released positive energy and momentum inside our business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

In 2015 we started to engage those clinical departments whose providers saw patients with conditions requiring frequent follow-up visits and infrequent physical exams, and who lived in Massachusetts but had difficulty coming into the office. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Furthermore, a 2015 study by Interaction Associates shows that high-trust companies “ are more than 2½ times more likely to be high performing revenue organizations ” than low-trust companies. This is what Stephen calls a“low-trust tax.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

At all costs, fight change.in Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Neither attends to details nor to pursue a Big Picture. Perpetuate co-dependencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

An exemplar of the new approach is WorleyParsons, a global engineering and construction firm that specializes in oilfield and other energy-related projects. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically. Large investments made when the market was growing, including several acquisitions, became a heavy debt load in the downturn.

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