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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business Review

Soldiers like efficiency and order. Typically, they start by acquiring or setting up a primary school so they can teach students from a younger age, to give them more time to have an impact and embed positive behaviors earlier on. (In Soldiers trim and tighten, focusing on the bottom line. ” Finding More Architects.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Name the Trade Rep, Mr. President

Harvard Business Review

But the President has yet to designate someone to fill the crucial Cabinet level position of U.S. The Trans-Pacific talks have involved 11 developed and developing Pacific Rim nations with a combined GDP of $40 trillion,and which recently got a jolt of energy and complexity when Japan (GDP=$6 trillion) joined the negotiations.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

I’ve already mentioned the historic Paris agreement, but there are more positive steps worth noting. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. In the U.S.,

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Energy Policy Is Fundamental to U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

energy policy for oil should aim at moderating demand through efficiency and increasing supply by focusing on drilling. Replacing the nation's fleet of 230 million cars and light duty trucks with more fuel-efficient vehicles over 15 years could save three million barrels of oil equivalent per day. China recently surpassed the U.S.