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Nuclear Power is Clean, Safe, and Reliable… But Can It Be Competitive?

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven experience reveals many of these cost reductions to be implementable within 180 days and to possess similar payback periods. to achieve its climate change goals. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recently indicated that retiring nuclear power plants would make it more difficult for the U.S.

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An HBR Refresher on Breakeven Quantity

Harvard Business Review

. “It’s one of the more popular ways that managers calculate marketing ROI,” says Avery, pointing out that other common ones include calculating the investment payback period, calculating an internal rate of return, and using net present value analysis.

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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things. But in my experience, this larger view of a company's goals has in recent years taken a back seat to a relentless pursuit of quarterly earnings. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Walmart is doing this.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

Both these efforts help the payback period arrive sooner, making collaboration a smarter investment for the next wave of people. Take the heat of other short-term goals so that time spent collaborating feels like less of an opportunity cost. Likewise, your actions can make the benefits start to flow sooner.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

People in finance at GE, typically focused on return on investment and payback periods, love FastWorks because they get a better throughput of ideas. And it has helped not only provide a new product development process, but a role model for a new culture based on a venture model. Partnering: getting ideas from start-ups.

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Obama Gave a Monumental Climate Change Speech, But It's Still Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

Still, if you''re dependent on coal-powered energy — or your value chain is — it''s time to rethink your energy strategy and reconsider the payback periods on clean energy investments. Walmart is the largest private user of solar power in the country, and has set goals to increase that amount 6-fold by 2020.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. Making drip irrigation more affordable and appropriate for these farmers has been one of my main goals in founding Driptech.