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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Telecommunications industry service providers. with case studies of actually collaborations. Vendors, trainers, computer consultants and other consultants who strategically team with clients to do business.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. Then the November 16th issue arrived at my door and the cover story was about alternative energy. And on and on.

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How eBay and Facebook are Cleaning Up Data Centers

Harvard Business Review

According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. If the cloud were itself a country, it would rank fifth in the world on energy demand behind the U.S., Google has invested almost $1 billion directly in renewable energy.

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