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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

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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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs? We need to find ways to bring that environment back.

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. Take the idea of a U.S. Census Bureau data.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.