Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Crude has not hand a monthly close below $40 since mid-2004. But the recent drop toward $40 a barrel and below puts even the most efficient operators in a bind. So even as rig counts collapsed, production is barely off the highs, at a price that isn't even profitable. oil producer, said in an interview.

Productivity 28

Productivity Energy Case Interview Transportation 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Operations 28

Operations Government Development Engineering 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

It is not efficient or equitable, and it does not raise as much revenue as it should. Third, despite some early economic models that suggested that taxing capital was less efficient than taxing labor, more recent work suggests that optimal capital tax rates may be quite similar to optimal labor tax rates. Jobs Creation Act of 2004.

System 28

System Finance Efficiency Government 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. In 2004, large Seattle employers came to our medical center seeking more affordable health care. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects.

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Guidelines Information Technology Information Technology Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

When Joseph Sirosh joined Amazon.com in 2004, he began seeing the value of AI to reduce fraud, bad debt, and the number of customers who didn’t get their goods and suppliers who didn’t get their money.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 42