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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. The technology and media company Intersection builds on revenue from advertisers to offer cities free “Links” kiosks to expand public Wi-Fi. Pharmacies are adding telemedicine kiosks. That mandate is worth keeping.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Only when the service was successfully operating did Ford begin to expand it, adding dozens of new routes and growing its local fleet to more than 200 vehicles. “We are getting pull from enterprises,” Ford Mobility head Marcy Klevorn said recently on a media conference call. Establish new rules, norms, and metrics.

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Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities

Harvard Business Review

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful. Narcissism.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software.