Peter Winick

JUNE 13, 2024

And when you look at the amount of time and energy and the effort that your organization has to spend to yield a decent return from them, it could be frustrating, right? And then you also have the variable of, well, people are people. And they need a lot of support and nurturing. So those people got let go.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

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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Energy Variable Costs Operations Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The money collected will go to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets , allowing Microsoft to declare itself carbon neutral. Accountability throughout the organization.

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Energy Variable Costs Travel Operations 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things. EPA's latest list of the top 50 renewable energy buyers.

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ROI Variable Costs Energy Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

At the company’s latest shareholder meeting, a think tank, NCPPR, pushed Apple to stop pursuing environmental initiatives like investing in renewable energy. Second, generating power, and possibly building ‘microgrids’ to create energy independence for your facilities, offers some serious resilience benefits.

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ROI Variable Costs Energy Benefits 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. It now has around 10,000 operating projects. It is easier to price a product, for which most of the fixed and variable costs are known, than a project, which is influenced by many external factors.

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