Energy and natural resources sector

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

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

In many companies, sales forces and marketers feud like Capulets and Montagues—with disastrous results. Here’s how to get them to lay down their swords.

We’re confusing output with impact.

When a crisis forces outside directors to navigate major changes, investors and directors must adopt new roles. The largest such case to date provides some useful lessons. The Royal Dutch/Shell Group was a 60/40 joint venture between Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading. It was run by a five-person committee of managing directors […]

New research suggests that Chinese companies' price advantage comes not from low-cost labor but from massive government subsidies. That finding has major...

An interview with Ian Bremmer.

It pays to be big in a global economy, right? Wrong. The rush toward huge cross-border mergers is based on a faulty understanding of economics. There are better ways to address globalization than relentless expansion.

The last official report on the April 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig was issued on September 16th. And yet the ultimate question remains: what responsibility did boards of directors and senior business leaders have for the catastrophe in the Gulf? We may never know. The report fails to address this fundamental question, just […]

Firms need to understand the people and places they affect.

Prairie grasses, forestry and mill residues, nongrain parts of food crops, and urban wood wastes all could become a huge source of renewable energy.

In psychology, the term "identified patient" refers to a family member - often a child or a teenager - who gets scapegoated for behavior that is actually...

How scenario planning changed corporate strategy

Climate change is a pressing concern for Bill Gates, who has just published a new book on the subject. He spoke with HBR's editor-in-chief about the need...

OPEC’s oil supply now conforms to ‘producer logic,’ and the consuming nations must take positive steps to adjust to the situation

There must have been an enormous sigh of relief among BP employees — from the front line to the boardroom — on Tuesday, when their CEO Tony Hayward’s finally resigned. However he was perceived — as villain, incompetent or, scapegoat — what’s clear is that Hayward was failing spectacularly as their leader almost from the […]

Sam Walsh called on lessons he learned as a boy to bring financial discipline back to the mining giant Rio Tinto.

It can drive revenue as well as cut costs.

Miami is a perfect example.

Green production cannot replace green consumption.