Energy and natural resources sector

The CEO of Better Place talks about what went through his mind the night he decided to start a venture to end the world's dependence on oil as a transportation...

The world’s largest oil service company is using the Web to revolutionize the way it buys equipment and supplies.

Trying to keep up with the world's insatiable appetite for energy, scientists and entrepreneurs are exploring six innovative concepts: high-altitude wind...

Identify, quantify, and manage the risks to your company’s reputation long before a problem or crisis strikes.

“I’m not stonewalling. I simply was not involved in the decision making process.” “That was a decision I was not party to.” “I can’t possibly know the basis on which that decision was taken.” Did BP’s CEO Tony Hayward, speaking at a congressional hearing, create the very conditions that left the most responsible person in […]

Managing the transition well benefits companies and the environment.

High-stakes projects need all-star teams. But all-stars often play by their own rules—and fight like cats and dogs.

Organizations are tapping people's mental and physical energy on the sly and using it to power lights, digitize books, and do other work. Are they simply...

Anecdotal evidence is at odds with the data.

The most dubious business plan can look solid—even smart—if it’s cast as a virtuous circle. “See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy—which generate profits that we invest in innovation!” Who could argue with that? Indeed, the merit of self-reinforcing systems seems so obvious that businesspeople instinctively describe their […]

An interview with Ian Bremmer.

I made the commitment to public involvement. Then I had to make it work.

The business model of utilities is essentially broken. The solution? Start charging customers for energy services, not energy output.

A new model explains the mental calculations people make before choosing to trust someone.

Strategy is the art of creating value. It provides the intellectual frameworks, conceptual models, and governing ideas that allow a company’s managers to identify opportunities for bringing value to customers and for delivering that value at a profit. In this respect, strategy is the way a company defines its business and links together the only […]

Miami is a perfect example.

Companies doing business in the developing world have to contend with the staggering human and financial costs of HIV infection—and most would agree that conventional approaches to controlling the epidemic aren’t working. In our experience in the labor-intensive mining industries of Russia, South Africa, and Botswana, we’ve seen infection rates among workers exceeding 90% in […]

Large companies spend millions, or billions, of dollars directly on energy each year--and millions more indirectly, on supply chain, outsourcing, and...

As interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill.

Corporations are facing growing pressure--from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves--to reduce greenhouse gas...