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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Clean Energy Can Fuel Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

This same principle applies more broadly to clean technology; to compete, it must outperform incumbent technologies on these dimensions. It would only undermine the long-term goal of creating an innovative, sustainable, and competitive clean energy and technology marketplace if the U.S. But those days are coming to an end.

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Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

Harvard Business Review

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways. from 2012 through 2014. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Companies That Don’t Manage Utilities Strategically Are Throwing Money Away

Harvard Business Review

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. It’s neither.