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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc. EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions.

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. reducing energy consumption, supporting local communities, enhancing physical and mental well-being, etc.).

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Aerial Photos Tell a Story About Which Cities Are Embracing Clean Energy

Harvard Business

Besides realizing that my carbon footprint for this year would be particularly horrendous, two things occurred to me from my perch in the sky: 1) there are a lot of people out there and 2) you can get a sense of how well a region is embracing clean energy by just looking at rooftops. People are everywhere. Like, a lot. states, is vast. (I’ve

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

government leaders, sustainability is getting more and more attention at American companies. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Neasden Control Centre for HBR.

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business

Tomorrow, another three companies — IBM, NRG Energy, and GSK — are presenting their long-term plans. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.