Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

My research on rail, air, roads, cars and trucks, public transit systems, and model infrastructure projects for my book Move confirms a lesson about leadership for change: Incremental innovations can pave the way for breakthroughs. Take rail transportation. Big systems changes can seem daunting. Small wins can have big impact.

Transportation 8

Transportation Project Innovation Training 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States desperately needs an energy policy. With five percent of the world's population and 20 percent of its energy use, the U.S. However, to have climate change policy you need an energy policy. To achieve this, the energy industry needs to regain the public trust. has an obligation to lead globally.

Policies 11

Policies Energy Transportation Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Or consider transportation. Or they can use ZipCar , at a fraction of the cost of car ownership. Consider senior care.

Transportation 13

Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They're concerned with growing budget deficits, uncertain tax policy, rising energy costs, and crumbling infrastructure. First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. We need a plan that will lead to energy independence so that we can stop moving from one energy crisis to another.

Transportation 12

Transportation Energy Globalization Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Another major industrial company moving to address water risk is ITT , the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems to transport, treat, and control fluids. NLine Energy, Inc.

Innovation 14

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 14

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors. In the vulnerability state, incumbents benefit from the continued presence of high barriers to entry such as regulation and capital requirements.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Thanks to leadership from the Obama Administration — in the form of a $3.7 Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Tools 13

Tools Transportation Short-term Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

They''re sleepwalking through their workday putting time — but not energy or passion — into their work.". Particularly troubling are the bottom three sectors — service, transportation, and manufacturing or production. shows that these managers from hell are creating active disengagement costing the U.S.

Bottom-up 9

Bottom-up Absenteeism Report Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. This is simple to say but difficult to do.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

And during this politically challenging period of cost-cutting and spending caps, politicians may find it tempting to cut funding to innovative activities. Green technology has the potential to cut carbon emissions, sure, but we also need to transform the way in which energy is delivered, utilized, and monitored.

Politics 15

Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. 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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? One challenge, as you might expect, was introducing a software center that disrupted the existing GE’s power structure, which resides in its business units, such as Aviation, Healthcare, Power and Water, and Transportation.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. These and many more challenges and the struggle for energy efficiency inspired world mining leaders a few years ago to launch a large-scale process of updating their mining facilities.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Exceptional success comes at a cost. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful.

Succession 14

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 14

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. Electricity generation and transportation each constitute around 30% of total emissions, with industrial sources making up 20% of total emissions. The Background.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8