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APRIL 16, 2021

Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else. Considering the overall costs and benefits of owning a business, is starting a business the best way to accomplish your goals?

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 257

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. But this is essentially a rebalancing after many years in which manufacturing shifted overwhelmingly to lower-cost nations such as China. To help remedy this, L.E.K. Thanks to the boom in U.S.

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Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being the founder of an innovative product or service requires holistic thinking, taking into account all aspects of what makes a new venture successful—from its value proposition to the customer (user), product development, technologies, cost to deliver, performance metrics and finally to getting the resources needed for implementation.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Diligence that nurtures strength makes a difference.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

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Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Tesla’s Powerwall storage system is not a radical innovation, and it is not the first battery for energy storage on the market. It would allow energy produced during the day to be stored for use in the evening and early morning (including for vehicle charging).

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Price Energy Technology Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. In today's resource-constrained environment, Western firms are feeling the growing pressure to " do more with less " — that is, deliver more value to customers at less cost.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

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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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

We built a Social Media Command Center, a high-energy, state-of-the-art engagement environment featuring dozens of wireless work stations, multiple collaboration rooms, and 18 HD monitors that display a wide variety of social feeds — all housed in a 6,200-square-foot workspace. Be active listeners.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. average (20%) of highly intensive STEM occupations.

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

They were about signaling a credible commitment to Tesla’s purpose: to become a clean energy giant that helps address climate change by transforming mobility. And more sharing and more autonomy in turn feed more electrification as the total cost of ownership goes down with higher vehicle utilization.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Consider the automotive industry. automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival.

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Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

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%.” The Automotive Science Group just named the F-150 the best large truck on environmental and economic performance (a lighter truck also saves the driver money on fuel).

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Modern solid-state power electronics got started in the 1950s, but rapid recent progress in power semiconductors, new power conversion topologies, and methods for controlling electric motors has brought us a plethora of small, high-efficiency, low-cost, and long-lived electronics subsystems for motion control.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The idea quickly spread from electronics (Solectron was an early exponent) to automotive (GM spun off Delphi, for example) and biopharma. The growth of CMOs in high-tech fields such as alternative energy and integrated photonics would be a significant boost to the U.S. Third, they create jobs — really good, high-paying jobs.

Contract Manufacturing 9

Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Many companies love customer feedback, but only a handful have devoted as much energy to employee feedback systems. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. Linking feedback systems allows companies to enlist frontline employees as agents of change.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

That is, find the point where the marginal benefit of spending more money is just equal to the cost of spending more money, and choose that point. That was engaging in calculations around calibration and tuning where there are tradeoffs. So, for example, how much money was the government prepared to provide as a DIP financier?

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Process Uncertainty Analysis Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Done correctly, an evolving legal system can encourage optimal investment in technologies that will increase social welfare, public safety, and sustainable energy consumption, as well as positively impact labor markets, land use, public health, and more. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Whatever the nature of your business, there are certain technologies that are slowly and quietly but consistently revolutionizing the ways in which businesses operate and the tech savvy business can either get in on the ground floor or face the combined impediments of increased running costs, lower output and reduced productivity.

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Technology Retail Industry Automotive 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If all went well, Blue Sky would soon be using Prime's components in its energy-efficient cars and trucks. "At Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. When the brakes are applied, mechanical energy flows back to the traction motors, which then act as electrical generators. Lin scoffed.

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

The following is a preview of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It by Etienne Deffarges. The result is high costs (literally trillions of dollars), poor results, deepening social inequality, and the erosion of public trust. Tom Brady and the “tuck rule.”. Wholesale changes must be contemplated.

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Cost Health Care IPO Automotive 172

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This was an automobile straight from Star Trek: powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the bulk of the energy system and battery sat on a low-slung "skateboard" design. A few months later, I found myself on a panel at MIT discussing America's energy future with a senior executive from British petroleum. About 150,000, he said.

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Price Automotive GDP Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. With automotive analysts forecasting major changes ahead in mobility, they began to think that the firm needed a dedicated lab that focused entirely on data challenges. High power demand charges.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. In the space of a year, the company cut costs by nearly $1 million. Taylor imbued the process with his own urgent pace.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Faculty and interns from IIT-Madras and elsewhere collaborate with SGRI’s researchers to assess energy efficiency and visual comfort for both small-scale models (less than 100 square feet) and large commercial buildings (more than 100,000 square feet.).

Industry 8

Industry Construction Energy Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Regardless of the cause, the cost to society of extreme weather has been rising for decades. The problems and costs of extreme weather are the same either way. In the Thailand floods of November 2011, both the hard-drive industry and the automotive sector experienced serious supply chain problems. I'd say no.

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Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. The cost of many staple resources, including oil, steel, and food, are rapidly escalating. But recycling — melting down products and making new ones — is energy intensive.

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Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. The cost of health insurance has risen by over 44% in the past five years. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

This would amount to higher tariffs for inputs or final goods, which, though unlikely to reach the 25% tariff levels suggested during Trump’s campaign, would still raise costs for multinationals and further inhibit cross-national supply chain integration. market but also as a priority market in their global portfolios.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

They do cost real money and can slow innovation. CEOs from some of the biggest food businesses have spoken out about threats to their supply chains from volatile energy prices and a changing climate (brought on, in part, by auto emissions). Sure, regulations can be excessive and unwieldy.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8