Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain. For instance, Tesla’s focus on sustainable energy solutions has significantly bolstered its reputation as an innovator in the automotive industry.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Adopting energy-efficient practices, outsourcing non-core activities, or implementing cost-saving technologies can also help reduce operational expenses. Explore Financing Options In some cases, external financing may be necessary to address immediate cash flow gaps.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2013

France Goes After "Red Bull" Energy Drinks. Socialists want to introduce a levy of 1 euro per liter of energy drinks. Members start Tuesday afternoon discussion of the draft law on financing of Social Security. Tax Hike Number Two: Energy Drinks. Where there''s socialists, there''s economic nonsense.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. You need legal, accounting, procurement, energy, and sustainability involved.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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MishTalk

JUNE 13, 2016

A Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) report plots out global power markets for the next 25 years. If accurate, solar … Continue reading →

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

"Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities." - Joseph Campbell. The presence of money fears can be good if they act as alerts to be strategic about investments and with marketing and sales. I had just come through a divorce the decimated my finances. It's just not smart marketing.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Do you remember the stock market crash of 2008? Everyone on the news was saying very clearly, “If the bank bailout bill doesn’t go through, the stock market will probably crash.”. So, that week, I took 100% of my money out of the stock market and put it in cash. And I never trusted the stock market after that.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Besides realizing that my carbon footprint for this year would be particularly horrendous, two things occurred to me from my perch in the sky: 1) there are a lot of people out there and 2) you can get a sense of how well a region is embracing clean energy by just looking at rooftops. The problem, he said, is largely one of financing.

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Harvard Business

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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. The strides in market value that the digital currency has made over the years have attracted global interest. Blockchain technology offers to remove this point of failure.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector. The digital nature of the ledger means that blockchain transactions can be tied to computational logic and in essence programmed.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. We took data we gathered in one market, build insights on top, and then tried to line up incentives and behavior change in complementary markets via offerings in a standalone business unit.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

I like to think I’m a pretty good marketer of my professional services. After all, I’ve been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus. But marketing is still challenging for me and the majority of independent professionals. Challenge # 2.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2017

There are also multiple ideas being developed about how this technology should be used, and what types of assets can be valued and transferred, which has also attracted the interest of the largest energy companies and telcos. So why not consider energy as the new monetary standard, as it is the base for the technological world.”.

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Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

Many companies in European markets that have producers or suppliers in China currently do not assess carbon footprint in their supply chains. Green finance is becoming increasingly dominant, as long-term investors see environmental risk management as a fundamental success factor in securing long-term returns.

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Tsavo Neal

JUNE 1, 2017

Let’s say, for example, that you’re a consultant who wants to help renewable-energy companies create effective business plans – and by “effective” we mean “able to help raise financing.”. While your main target client is the CEO of a renewable energy company, you’ve found these people hard to reach.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

According to a McKinsey report , China is one of the top economic partners for Africa across five dimensions: trade, level of foreign direct investment (FDI), growth of FDI, infrastructure financing, and aid. This comes at a time when Africa needs to improve its infrastructure, particularly energy, roads and railways.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. Want to increase your profitability?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We design and manufacture personal-scale energy appliances that enable our users to cook, charge, and light their lives off the grid. We design and manufacture personal-scale energy appliances that enable our users to cook, charge, and light their lives off the grid. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite. At left, a CampStove.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 30, 2014

European Union leaders agreed to impose tougher sanctions on Russia, possibly targeting energy and finance, if the war in Ukraine worsens. Merkel said the EU is looking at more measures to target Russia’s energy and finance industry. Target Russian energy and Russia will likely shut off natural gas supplies to Europe.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Smart Debt Engineering The markets are giddy today over a Plan to End Debt Standoff released yesterday by Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. Eurozone finance ministers are expected to hold emergency talks in Brussels on February 11 to discuss Mr Varoufakis’s plans. Energy is leading the way. The euro rose.015

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MishTalk

JANUARY 24, 2014

Argentina Institutes 50% Tax on Internet Purchases; Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey Roundup Yesterday, Argentina devalued the Peso hoping to halt further declines in its currency reserves. Markets had seen this coming as charts of the Peso vs. the US dollar show. The 5-year decline is over 50%.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Energy cost is a heavy burden for many businesses. Recruit smarter, not harder The shift in the labor market is here to stay. In this market, it's important to hire smart. Remote work is here to stay The pandemic has accelerated the emergence of a truly global labor market. Here are our small business trends for 2023.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Each of these makes your team more effective with fewer hours of energy expended. A Growing Market It is enormously beneficial to work in a growing industry, especially in a growing company in a growing industry. When things are written down and someone quits unexpectedly, you can get a new hire up to speed much faster.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 7, 2015

OPEC and non-OPEC producers have not cooperated to tackle low oil prices since they joined forces 15 years ago to help the market recover from the 1998 financial crisis. "We By cheapening interest rates, financing of rigs became too easy. Now the energy sector is in a mess. And it's not just the energy sector that's a mess.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 14, 2019

When you take a finance class, you learn the principle of asset diversification. Diversification means you’re able to maximize your overall financial return across a wide variety of market conditions while reducing your losses. From a finance point of view, it is possible to over diversify to the point of having very little upside.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Financial Services Operating Group concerns itself with Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance. The Resources Operating group is devoted to Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities. Accenture's Marketing Transformation services consultants help executives build a high performance marketing operation.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 7, 2017

Blockchain technology has been applied in the finance industry in the payments space. However the technology has many other uses – starting with the ability to better monetize alternative energy to the digitisation of insurance contracts. For example, Customer A authorizes payment to buy a convertible bond.

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Ben de Haldevang

MARCH 7, 2017

He spent the early of his career in the investment banking world with Standard Chartered and ABN Amro before starting up his own advisory and investment business, ADL Capital with a focus on investing in power, infrastructure, waste and biomass, clean energy and energy efficiency businesses across SE Asia and into China.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

Principals, an expert in Litigation and Energy, to serve clients on the West Coast and the Pacific Rim, and so Brattle Group’s San Francisco office was opened. The Brattle Group is now considered one of the European Union’s top consulting firms in the areas of energy, finance and competition. Regulatory finance.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 18, 2014

Spain is again dependent on foreign financing. Via translation from Libre Mercado, Spain Again Borrows Abroad to Finance Consumption. In fact, overall imports do not even account for energy products, which fell by 4.1%. The mirage in Spain pretending to be a recovery, has officially dissipated into wind-blown ashes.

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Management Consulted

JULY 3, 2016

Bates White has been a dominant market leader in asbestos litigation and valuation as well as in False Claims Act litigation. Though antitrust remains Bates White’s largest practice area, the firm is recognized as an expert in environmental product liability, healthcare and life sciences, energy, and finance.

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MishTalk

MARCH 31, 2014

Finance reports Yellen strongly defends easy Fed policies, cites U.S. labor slack Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave a strong defense of the central bank''s easy-money policies on Monday, saying its "extraordinary" commitment to boosting the economy, especially the still struggling labor market, will be needed for some time to come.

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