Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hong Kong Section was also a co-sponsor of the event. Event details here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Try to look out for a company that utilizes eco-friendly materials and has a proper sustainable plan in place to conserve energy. That’s why make sure to check the reviews about the company on various social media platforms and search engines. Is the firm reliable and experienced?

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Since it is about designing behaviour of individuals to achieve business success, this requires an understanding of decision sciences (psychology, sociology, neurosciences, etc) much like a Finance professional needs to know accountancy. efforts to formulate and implement the strategic needs of business” 1. Productivity needs engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. You need legal, accounting, procurement, energy, and sustainability involved.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. They do commit to engage with other people who share their experience.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2017

There are many and diverse ways of saving money, from using heat tape to save on plumbing costs to filling your office with energy saving fluorescent bulbs but, as with most things, the difference between success and failure is strategy. You can even grow your reach organically through your content marketing campaign.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. After becoming the CEO of WebMD, Patricia Fili-Krushel met with an all-male group of engineers in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Attracting workers skilled in advanced analytics will become increasingly important for the company (as will the technology and processes required to translate these skills into real sources of advantage); industrial engineering and plant management skills will become less critical to fueling the company’s long-term growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The formula worked. What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The formula worked. What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

"Ten years ago we met in Saudi and said 'someday we'll be sitting in the middle of the desert talking about renewable energy.' The speaker was an academic at Sydney's University of New South Wales, and we met last week at a vast trade show in Abu Dhabi called the World Future Energy Summit. And here we are."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We design and manufacture personal-scale energy appliances that enable our users to cook, charge, and light their lives off the grid. We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Dedicated teams like these benefit from the company’s core business, its Performance Engine while they create future opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Energy: How ambitious the team is, and how much it takes the initiative and maintains long-term momentum at a high level. This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Other top executives at the American Energy Innovation Council are pushing for more funding for alternative energy research. Others, such as the discovery of DNA, the human genome project and clean energy, benefit society more broadly. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development' The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many. From engineer to call center employee, people loved being at Zappos. The list goes on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

A trader need not really understand the financial engineering models that he may use on daily basis. For example, we need nuclear reactors to solve some of our energy needs and to mitigate global warming. Any system that involves human behavior, like economics or finance, is inherently self-referential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance. Cities and states are becoming the R&D engines of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness. Through sheer force of will (her passion was contagious and her research was solid) she enlisted 20 technical experts at the company, including a number of engineers who worked on their own time to help her advance the idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, some of these are low-paying, burger-flipper jobs.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2018

Although financing your business idea is the first milestone to overcome, once you’re up and running, it’s time to channel your energy into targeting your niche audience and marketing your product. Launching a startup is a challenging and often humbling venture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Ageas contributes its expertise in insurance product design, marketing, finance, and risk management, while the partner, often a well-embedded local financial institution, contributes its customer portfolio, distribution channel, brand, and relationships. Model 6: Cofunding of a third-party asset.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. internet company in China.

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