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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Innovation will be required to facilitate the rapid forced energy transition called for by international bodies, and the pace of innovation can be accelerated if it enjoys support from governments in the form of grants, subsidies, and intellectual property protections. Solar and Wind Alone Can’t Meet Growing Power Demand.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

presidential election to the possibility of a smartphone-driven dystopia , 2018 already looks to be that much worse. If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. There are also specialized laws for tech, including limits on how Internet companies can engage with children.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. The status quo persists. YOY in 2017–2018.