Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2011
Local energy is local in its risks also. It's not too cheeky to point out that if a natural disaster causes an offshore wind turbine to fall, or a solar panel to rip off a house, there's no spill and limited danger. A spill of oil or nuclear radiation can affect millions of people.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 19, 2017
Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. But these trends, and the business responses to them, carry secondary, nonmarket risks — which may turn out to be even greater.
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