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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

Some of the energy saved and resold will come from traditional energy efficiency (EE) investments, which companies have been making for many years. However, the explosion of smart digital- and internet-connected devices has created a new form of energy efficiency that adds immediate control over equipment as a new EE strategy.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

They are happy for the financial sector to experiment with new products on- and off-balance sheet, allowing the system gently to displace state allocation of capital through decreed interest rates, loan quotas, loan-to-deposit ratios and specific credit restrictions.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.