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  • Outsource Management?

    Whatever happened to the venerable military institution of KP? It’s been outsourced, along with a lot of other tasks in the work environment. Outsourcing often makes sense, but it isn’t a panacea.

  • Postmortem: U.S. Electric Transmission Siting Policy

    Despite high-powered congressional legislation in 2005, the U.S. is still unable to site high-voltage interstate transmission lines in a timely fashion. Two new reports suggest ways out of the gridlock.

  • MIT: Uranium Supplies Adequate

    Uranium remains plentiful around the world, says a new resource study from MIT, obviating the need to "close" the nuclear fuel cycle by reprocessing and developing breeder reactors.

  • Look Before You Leap into the Cloud

    Given cloud computing’s potential to lower operating costs and increase flexibility, it’s no wonder that it is on the cusp of sending the corporate world into a paradigm shift.

  • The Pitfalls of Pollution Allowance Trading

    The process of banking allowances under the existing schemes for creating markets for pollution reductions has created a set of difficult problems as those programs have changed, wiping out significant value from the allowances.

  • A Really Basic Checklist for Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions

    As mergers and acquisitions in the power sector heat up again, questions arise about how employee benefits are affected by these complex business deals.

  • The Art of Ruthless Focus

    A million possibilities and distractions are in the business environment. Tom Hall and Wally Bock, authors of the new book Ruthless Focus, say the companies that win in the long term are the ones that can drown out the background noise and keep dancing with the strategy that brought them to the party.

  • Double A Energy Policy

    With climate legislation dead in the U.S., it is worthwhile to take a look at how discussions of energy and environmental policy ebb and flow in the country, generally without reaching serious resolution.

  • Stop "Doing" and Start Leading

    A key challenge for new leaders is to make a transition from actually doing the work to making sure that the work gets done. That takes a mind shift.

  • Progressing Cavity Pump with Unique Gear Joint

    Moyno Inc. launched its Moyno 2000 Progressing Cavity Pump with a unique gear joint that allows the versatile pump to handle a wide range of applications, from shear-sensitive chemicals to difficult-to-process slurries and sludges. The crowned gear universal joint drive train configuration provides exceptional torque and thrust control, and the patented joint seals effectively protect […]