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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Assuming energy can be produced via clean methods and transported to its intended destination, there will be one other key bottleneck to overcome: electricity storage. According to McKinsey, final energy demand will double by 2050, with growth in demand coming primarily from buildings, transportation, and industry. Waste Removal.

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Blockchain Startup 101: A blue print for launching a successful blockchain-based startup

Tom Spencer

The upright scooter was supposed to revolutionize transportation but all it did was make riders looks silly and self-satisfied. Before scaling, you should make sure that all of your intellectual property is protected. They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. Records management. Either a Global Practice Leader, Co-leader, Senior Managing Director or Global CEO lead each of these practices. Interim Management. Intellectual Property. Securities Litigation & Risk Management. Intellectual Property. Latin America.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Each of these leaders hold advanced degrees in economics, engineering, finance, management from top universities around the world. Intellectual property. Risk management. The Brattle Group focuses on electric power, financial institutions, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunications and media, and transportation.

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Why Your Partnership Contract Is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers

Harvard Business

These costs are not operational costs, such as commission fees or transportation costs. Weak intellectual property laws prevent a firm from resorting to courts. When managers spot these sorts of problems on the horizon, a deal that potentially will create value may not get done because the contract is bound to be incomplete.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business

Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. At normal companies, managers look to their attorneys to advise them on how to keep their business within the law. A Race to the Bottom.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed.