Category Archives: Competition
Underwater Cable an Alternative to Electrical Towers
BUSINESS STRATEGY – Generating 20 percent of America’s electricity with wind, as recent studies proposed, would require building up to 22,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission lines. But the huge towers and unsightly tree-cutting that these projects require have provoked intense public opposition.
Recently, though, some companies are finding a remarkably simple answer to that political [...]
Finding the Right Care for the Elderly
BUSINESS STRATEGY – Two years ago my father, then 83, became very ill. Until then, he had been living alone in a pleasant one-bedroom apartment on the Hudson River, an hour’s drive from my home in Brooklyn.
After a couple of months in the hospital it became clear that my dad, Harvey Alderman, could not return [...]