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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

One famous example is Volvo announcing in 2021 that from 2030 on, they would only sell fully-electric cars (phasing out combustion engines, including hybrids). . Despite China’s late start on implementing an ETS, the country has been projected to develop the largest carbon market in the world once the ETS is fully implemented.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Booz, Business Engineering Service; Edwin G.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Practical Ways to Motivate (and Not Demotivate) Your Team

Nash Consulting

Your Brain on Dopamine Dopamine, our favorite brain chemical, is responsible for motivation, and it nudges us to pursue long- and short-term goals. Dopamine (among other chemicals) is released into our brains when we anticipate a reward, which creates a desire to move in the direction of the reward our brain is craving.

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Research: Immigrants Played an Outsize Role in America’s Age of Innovation

Harvard Business

The largest share of immigrants were involved in developing medical technology inventions, such as surgical sutures. economy at this time – specifically electricity and chemicals, which accounted for 13.9% technological development over the long-run, we constructed a measure that we call foreign-born expertise. of all U.S.