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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business Review

Commercial and industrial firms are prime candidates to become prosumers due to the large size of their facilities, variations in power use, and ability to buy and sell electricity products at scale. GW of renewable energy since the beginning of 2015, enough to power about half the state of Connecticut.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business Review

household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. Both small startups and large-scale technology companies are eyeing the possibilities this presents, and some are teaming up. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing.

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As European Banks Retreat from the World Stage, China Is Stepping Up

Harvard Business Review

But most banks simply found that found that margins and profits in foreign markets where they lacked scale or sufficient local knowledge were lower than returns on domestic business. China has risen from 16th place in 2005 to 8th in 2015. And so their focus returned to domestic business. Brazil has moved up seven places since 2005.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) But GE’s core businesses don’t have the scale of those online businesses. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. of the company.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. With two separate balance sheets, management could plan around the risk variables (i.e. Over the last three years the U.S.