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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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How Managerial Quality Affects Energy Usage In Manufacturing Firms

The Horizons Tracker

In many ways, it seems like something of a no brainer for the sector to target emissions, as making their operations more efficient has productivity benefits as well as environmental ones. Fossil fuel subsidies are hugely important, as they amounted to nearly $5 trillion around the world in 2013, or 6.5% of global GDP.

Energy 81
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The Rise Of Robots In China And What This Means For The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. The analysis emerged from an exploration of occupations and salary from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. Better environmental performance and more green innovations. The answer to both questions is a resounding yes. percentage points.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.