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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

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million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments). McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030. billion per year by 2030.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills.

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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

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based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand. This, coupled with relative affordability, makes it a place people want to call home.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. .

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business Review

To test the idea, hospital managers developed a special patient-safety card game that encouraged coworkers to work together more easily and reinforced their knowledge of core safety and patient care principles. And we mean everyone — not only the inpatient and outpatient teams but even people in HR and Finance. Insight Center.

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Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets

Harvard Business Review

For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Within weeks there was $50 billion in business deals involving foreign companies, including the Airbus agreement (worth $25 billion) to sell 118 planes, and Italy’s state rail company’s $5 billion pact to develop the local rail network. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, remaining U.S.