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Will Gardiner is the CEO and chairperson of Drax, a UK-based energy company with goals to limit its reliance on coal.
Within the last decade, Drax has reduced its carbon emissions by 85% by using sustainable biomass rather than coal in its generating units.
Because of his work, Insider named Gardiner to our annual list of the 10 leaders transforming energy in Europe.
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Delivering a low-carbon future isn t just good business sense: It s vital for the future of the planet. The moves of one firm, Drax, to draw down its reliance on coal-fired power generation in the UK helped propel its CEO and chairperson, Will Gardiner, into our list of 100 People Transforming Business in Europe in 2020.
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Dorthe Mikkelsen is the president of Asia Pacific at MSD, a leading pharmaceutical company.
Mikkelsen thinks healthcare needs to be treated as an investment, rather than a cost, in order to be truly sustainable.
Because of her work, Insider named Mikkelsen to our annual list of the 10 leaders transforming healthcare in Asia.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how vital health is to our shared economic prosperity, causing global GDP to decline 4.4% in 2020. Yet research by McKinsey has shown that reducing the global disease burden could add $12 trillion to global GDP by 2040, with $4 in economic return for each $1 invested. This improvement in health could play a meaningful role in the world s long-term economic recovery.
Gary Burnison is the CEO of management consulting company Korn Ferry.
He thinks companies are the most successful when they allow employees to bring emotions into work.
His tips as a leader include starting with yourself and showing up even when you don t have the answers.
This article is part of a series called Leaders by Day, which takes a look at how prominent business leaders are tackling various challenges in today s economy.
It s been a longstanding idea in business that emotions should be kept out of the workplace. Whatever s going on in your personal life, you leave it at home so you can bring your most productive self to work.
Cloud giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have already made headway by partnering with telcos.
Enterprise 5G networks are a big opportunity that analysts say could reach $5.7 billion by 2024.
This article is part of a series about cloud technology called At Cloud Speed.
The next generation of wireless networks, dubbed 5G, will have more capacity, faster speeds, and lower latency than its predecessor 4G. As a result, it s expected to bring technologies like augmented reality, self-driving cars, data-crunching Internet of Things devices, and even smart cities closer to the mainstream than ever before.
Deeply entwined with cloud computing, 5G is expected to be the backbone of so many future products and services that it has the potential to power economic growth for decades to come, analysts predict.