Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

However, that’s a small price to pay for the positives that are derived. Mentoring is a must, though it takes time and energy many women don’t feel they have. The other side of it is that this, no doubt, gives us the weight of responsibility in modeling workplace behavior.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung should infuse some energy into the board which has been under fire for backdating company stock options. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.Â

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

By doing this, we would improve the customer experience dramatically, release products that were more aligned to customer needs, and price services optimally. An experiment, in general, is an investment of one’s resources – time, energy, knowledge, expertise, relationships, money, and more – to explore the world and learn something new.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In the past, low oil prices have been seen as a boon, particularly at the gas pump. But recently oil prices have dropped so low that warning bells rippled through global markets, and they remain volatile. HBR: Do you see sustained low oil prices as a risk? These prices are going to stay low for some time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. You need legal, accounting, procurement, energy, and sustainability involved.

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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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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. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price. tried to match Chinese subsidies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? However, in situations where a firm must maintain access to capital markets (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Dorie Clark – Marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. The organizations talking about stranded assets seem to assume that governments will price carbon at some point. Let’s quickly look at each. The Stick: Regulation .

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. For example, if you’re a brand marketer, you might give yourself an “A” in advertising development, a “B+” in pricing analysis, “C” in trade marketing, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

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. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. But what’s the role of investors?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Kocieniewski describes forklift drivers moving aluminum from warehouse to warehouse in Detroit to profit from rules set by an overseas metals exchange, while delivery times to actual users of aluminum have stretched to 16 months and aluminum prices have been pushed up by the equivalent of a tenth of a U.S. cent per aluminum can.

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JULY 27, 2020

Accounting, website hosting, marketing, payroll, on and on. Advertising and marketing is another area that you could benefit from outsourcing. For many business owners, running an entire marketing department isn’t worth the investment that it provides. Energy efficiency as it relates to your budget means cheaper bills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Of the large markets, the U.S., As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? What will happen to demand, pricing, and usage patterns over that horizon? How will road pricing models need to change?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The trillion-dollar number is not random: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that the world needs to pour $36 trillion of investment into the clean economy between now and 2050 in order to keep the planet below the critical warming threshold of 3.6 coal market. Economy Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Utilities are rolling out smart meters and introducing dynamic pricing schemes. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Pharmacies are adding telemedicine kiosks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. But two-way door decisions are reversible without costing the company its life, such as a new product launch or pricing decision.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. The problem is that nobody's ever really been able to answer which shareholders, when?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. Take insurance, for example. In the future, much of this work will be done by machines.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, there are typically several important tasks at the top of his or her To-Do list, such as writing a business plan, choosing a name, and obtaining financing. Too often, there's a task that's far down this list of priorities that deserves to be much higher: Making the company's first sale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, there are typically several important tasks at the top of his or her To-Do list, such as writing a business plan, choosing a name, and obtaining financing. Too often, there's a task that's far down this list of priorities that deserves to be much higher: Making the company's first sale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Just in the past few months, the Columbia Business Law Review has come out with an entire issue devoted to the topic (based on a symposium held at Columbia last fall), and Edward Elgar has published a 512-page Research Handbook on Insider Trading (list price, $240) edited by UCLA Law Professor (and prolific blogger ) Stephen Bainbridge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. or China should get the gold medal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

For the former position, the requirements go beyond knowledge of lithium-ion cells (cell capacity, impedance, energy, and so on) to include expertise to develop algorithms for state-of-the-art feedback control and estimation. Moreover, it’s not just technology-related jobs that are being reimagined with AI.

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