Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. trillion by 2020. China, China, China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. By 2009, however, Verizon had scaled back plans for more fiber and DSL technology was falling behind improvements in cable. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And India is on track to become the youngest country in the world by 2020 and its digital economy is expected to balloon from $413 billion today to $1 trillion dollars by 2025. The data will establish a social credit system expected to be both mandatory by 2020. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

Airlines 9

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

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. also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.). Unilever U.S.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. But last month the country also indicated coal use would rise until 2020 (albeit at a slower rate than the growth of renewables). Renewables Kept Growing and Getting Cheaper.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to a Rutgers study , political ideology and user choice, rather than algorithmic curation, have the most significant impact on engagement with partisan and unreliable news on Google Search. “To the extent that people are engaging with those websites, that’s based largely on personal political outlook.”

Engineering 114

Engineering Politics Content Self-aware 114

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Many countries also committed serious funds to build a clean economy: Saudi Arabia pledged $109 billion for solar , Japan declared that a $628 billion green energy industry would be central to its 2020 strategy, and China targeted $372 billion to cut energy use and pollution. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? I’m not talking about the politics of and governmental action on climate change, such as the Paris Accord , carbon trading schemes, or efficiency standards. Will the seismic shift in U.S. The short answer is no.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8