Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Mentoring is a must, though it takes time and energy many women don’t feel they have. I wrote an article on my experiences which you can find at [link] I welcome your feedback! The other side of it is that this, no doubt, gives us the weight of responsibility in modeling workplace behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Your wisdom rings through the article, Mike! Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk. Taking action always begings with one simple act – making a decision. Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy?

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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. How can these people take part in the solar energy revolution and all the money savings that come with it?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. Houston energy magnate Dan Duncan who died earlier this year had an estimated net worth of $9 billion, and television industry mogul John Kluge died with a $6.5 billion estate.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Online articles are also ways to shape your expectations from a field and organize where and how you want to begin working. Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction. But the best place for ideas on professional goal setting is to talk to those in the field.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. This is an interesting article: [link] [.] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Linda Marsden-Thomas, Krista.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Productive teams are not only fun to be a part of, they are also responsible for just about everything in our civilization, from technological advancements to architectural wonders to sports dynasties. Leadership is the force that prevents the mob tendencies of any group of people and instead channels those energies into productive alignment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? ” To his point, Einstein’s discoveries now play essential roles in technologies ranging from nuclear energy to computer technologies and GPS satellites.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This article will examine the last five Building Blocks of Trust. I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Anyway, thanks for this article. A related challenge your article brings to mind: the notion of a "balanced" life may not mean that at any given time one's time and other resources are committed in a balanced way. " There are actually people who believe that? I couldn't agree more!

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

And this can’t be just your run-of-the-mill, 300-750 word article due to the explosion of content on the web. million blog articles are being published every day. This article by Mike McManus of Marketing Labs is one solid example. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. Next, be yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Articles about artificial intelligence often begin with an intention to shock readers, referencing classic works of science fiction or alarming statistics about impending job losses. Finding opportunities for this kind of clever improvement, saving human time and energy, is not just a leadership challenge. Taylor Callery/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Economy Finance Sustainability' Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? While sharing and driverless will converge for the 1.7

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The risks in lower energy prices have a lot more to do with sustainability of some of the governments around the world that are really dependent on commodity revenues for their own legitimacy and power. The growth and energy demand in China is immense. They’re not going to stop doing that because energy prices are low.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. For all but a few process-focused companies or those with energy-intensive facilities such as data centers, the utility bill is generally filed under the list of uncontrollable, take-it-or-leave-it costs of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

"You only gain an edge over rivals by having or doing something that they can''t have or do," wrote Nicholas Carr ten years ago in his controversial HBR article, " IT Doesn''t Matter.". Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

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