Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

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. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5 It starts with leadership support.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

In fact, although we saw examples of companies using AI in computer-to-computer transactions such as in recommendation engines that suggest what a customer should buy next or when conducting online securities trading and media buying, we saw that IT was one of the largest adopters of AI. Disclosure: Microsoft is a TCS client.). Related Video.

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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 Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Turing’s thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina. According to Scott Berns, CenturyLink’s Director of Marketing Operations, the company has approximately 1,600 sales people, and the Angie pilot started with four of them. Drift was relatively easy to set up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. But typically, increased support came too late, and was proportional to the size of the breach and subsequent media attention.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Moreover, it has been highly praised by startups, VCs, and the media.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss. This step goes hand in hand with the media attention these price changes drew.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. A digitally-skilled workforce is vital to help deploy advanced digital technologies that can streamline and automate grid operations.

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Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. The New Tools of Marketing. In a 2015 report on the Millennial traveler, “free Internet access” was the top-ranked desired amenity. They already account for a third of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The survey reveals 81% of top performing companies (compared to 74% of average companies) used some form of pay-for-performance practices in 2015. That’s particularly the case today, as many organizations are aware of the increasing drumbeat and media discourse around pay fairness, especially fair pay for women.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Increasingly the way to reach the next generation of employees is through social media , both to recruit them and to engage them. Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, by working closely with its 822 sheep farmers during a season of poor Spring weather in 2015 that delayed lamb maturation, Sainsbury’s in the UK was able to extend the lamb season by five weeks. Modify or eliminate traditional store practices that increase waste.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. We stopped judging our consumers and ourselves about our media habits. The presentation quickly went viral and has been viewed more than five million times. Adapted from.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

” Executives, investors, entrepreneurs, analysts, and the media had to assess whether this would be another Apple juggernaut. But the new multisided platform economics provides powerful tools for separating new platforms that will likely succeed from those that are going to fail spectacularly. percent in June 2015, to 0.6

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

He expects to operate it, perhaps daily, yet the chances are he possesses little or no mechanical knowledge. According to a 2015 DrivingSales study of more than 1,300 active car shoppers (where most of the statistics from this article derive from), the changing behavior of buyers has placed even more emphasis on selling at the dealer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. New levels of transparency — What’s in this?

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. In 2015, the FCC succeeded. As a result, in just a few short years, nearly one-third of all U.S.

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