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Nuclear Power is Clean, Safe, and Reliable… But Can It Be Competitive?

Strategy Driven

Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? to achieve its climate change goals.

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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

At the recent GreenBiz Forum in New York , I was surprised by an on-stage interview with Fred Bedore, an executive from Walmart. When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Walmart is doing this.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

The hard part is executing the idea to build a business, which takes a process that actually works. People in finance at GE, typically focused on return on investment and payback periods, love FastWorks because they get a better throughput of ideas. As it turns out, getting the breakthrough ideas is usually the easy part.

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Obama Gave a Monumental Climate Change Speech, But It's Still Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

Still, if you''re dependent on coal-powered energy — or your value chain is — it''s time to rethink your energy strategy and reconsider the payback periods on clean energy investments. Walmart is the largest private user of solar power in the country, and has set goals to increase that amount 6-fold by 2020.