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Inside UPS’s Electric Vehicle Strategy

Harvard Business

These new trucks will create significant additional value for the business in ongoing operational savings, improved routing efficiency, and brand building. in 2010, and has a couple thousand hybrids or EVs on the road now. Phillippi expects total operating costs to be roughly 20% lower. FedEx got there early in the U.S.,

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Getting to 1.5 Embrace renewable energy.

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Consultant Ninja: Dipping my toe in the health care debate.

Consultant Ninja

Structural Driver: The organizations in the health care system operate inefficient operational structures. I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. Question: In the Obama plan, which one of these three cost drivers is getting reversed?