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

Harvard Business Review

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. So how do you jumpstart collaboration without transforming the pay or promotion system? The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

Belvedere’s distillery in Poland shifted from oil to gas for energy generation and added heat recovery systems to capture wasted energy. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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How to Better Manage Your Company’s Utility Bills

Harvard Business Review

Large savings can be captured by doing things like optimizing boiler and chiller performance, running HVAC diagnostics, and making improvements to the building management system’s programming. In our experience, well-designed retrofits can deliver 20%-50% energy savings with fast payback periods.