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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Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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Energy Price Long-term Banking 10

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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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. The digital revolution, therefore, is helping to create a more frugal economy, one that generates greater value in a highly efficient, socially inclusive, and eco-sustainable manner — using fewer resources. GDP by 2020. housing sector.

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

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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NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. environmental, social, and governance — or ESG) performance.

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Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

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. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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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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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 9

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. What can employers do to see that this workforce is given maximum benefits to enact the dual role efficiently and comfortably? People have a longer lifespan with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine.

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Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. I care about your contribution to the enterprise at every level…not just culturally.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. If you are competing in an ecosystem world, you must pay as much attention to the progress of co-innovators as to your own innovation efforts.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects. Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

By channeling the innovative spirit of the American people, we can start chipping away at the trade deficit and get to a trade surplus. But with a tax like the one described above, they would be forced to channel their creative energies to source locally where they can and import selectively as needed.

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Short-term Budgeting Policies Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. But what if the task had been simply to make a chip that was 30% more efficient? There is no one “true” path to innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In finance, productivity growth declined particularly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain due to contractions in lending volumes that banks were unable to fully offset with staff cuts due to the need for fixed labor (for example to support branch networks and IT infrastructure or to deal with existing loans and bad debt).

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 76

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Secondly, beyond opportunity and flexibility, the level of productivity possible in the operations I describe above has been boosted several-fold by the growing proliferation of next generational models in finance, banking, and logistics. They are indeed achieving more with less compared to their Western counterparts.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. But other problems require more than an answer to a known question, and demand that you spend some energy figuring out if you're asking the right question in the first place.

Marketing 16

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Platform businesses bring together producers and users in efficient exchanges of value – Uber, for example, connects drivers and passengers just as YouTube connects videographers and viewers. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. link] mikemyatt Hi Tom: Thanks for your comment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). Financing the clean economy. Unilever U.S. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10

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. miles per gallon by 2025.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8

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. The Background. Blue States.

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Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8