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Plenty of shoppers say they prefer sustainable products over ordinary ones. Yet for consumer product companies, tapping into this green demand can prove tricky. One challenge: establishing that ...

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Almost everyone feels the temptation to answer “10 cents” because the sum $1.10 so neatly ...

But Boston Dynamics, which was acquired by Google in 2013 and sold to SoftBank in 2017, was in the process of transforming into a full-fledged product company. The goal was to provide robots to ...

A series of giant white X’s painted on the tarmac in Berlin’s city center signals to pilots that the landing strip of the historic Tegel aerodrome, a product of the 1948 Soviet blockade of the city, ...

Nuclear power construction and IT projects also tend to go disastrously and exorbitantly wrong. But these are just three of the worst kinds of megaprojects, a cursed category defined by the authors, ...

Digitally enabled ecosystems are a vital part of the modern business landscape. They open the door to new customers and markets, and broaden and enhance a firm’s value proposition through the seamless ...

A strong car brand can create significant value in the automotive industry. The price consumers expect to pay for otherwise identical luxury vehicles can vary as much as $4,000, depending on the car’s ...

Europe’s leading companies now have proportionately more CDOs (42%) than North America’s (38%), driven by appointments in the UK, Switzerland, and Germany. We believe this is likely due to Europe’s ...

Some definitions will be clearly outlined in the reporting standards or applicable laws. Where they are not, some amount of judgment will be necessary. If a company were to disclose every single ...

I recently participated in an online open innovation session on the future of work hosted by Everything Omni, a UK-based group aiming to “future-proof work and the workplace for the uncertainty of ...

Companies have been appointing chief sustainability officers (CSOs) at a brisk pace recently, and it’s no wonder. With net-zero deadlines on the horizon, investors increasingly want to understand the ...