Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermin…
Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates the special characteristics of renewable energy with key elements of project finance. Through a mixture of fundamental analysis and real-life examples, readers learn how renewable energy project finance deals mix finance, public policy, legal, engineering and environmental issues. This book investigates the economics of la…
Buku ini memberikan beberapa contoh nyata penerapan Ilmu Menerobos Sumbatan. Banyak penuturan pengalaman yang untuk pertama kalinya diketahui publik, seperti: - Lelang proyek pembangunan Kilang Minyak Merah Putih di Balongan - Pertama kalinya putra-putri Indonesia membangun pipa gas di bawah laut dari Pulau Sumatra ke Pulau Jawa - Kiat Kontraktor Nasional mendominasi Pembangunan Pembangkit L…
The Ecology of Commerce is the provocative national bestseller that addresses the necessity of merging good business practices with common sense environmental concerns. Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this controversial work by Paul Hawken has been revised and updated, arguing why business success and sustainable environmental practices need not—and, for the sake of our plan…
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future. These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted. In Material World, Ed Conway …
A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better business leadership results. We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them…
Some people have it, and others don’t. Jeffrey Pfeffer explores why, in Power. One of the greatest minds in management theory and author or co-author of thirteen books, including the seminal business-school text Managing With Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer shows readers how to navigate the realities of organizational politics to succeed and wield power in the real world. This unflinching busine…
Taufik Aditiyawarman adalah profesional dan akademisi di bidang minyak dan gas (migas). Profesionalisme dan akademisinya di bidang migas telah dijalaninya selama 30 tahun lebih, sehingga pemikirannya terkait pengelolaan aset migas dipandang cukup otoritatif. Penelitian terbarunya tentang upaya menjawab tantangan utama sektor migas—penuaan aset kritis, risiko operasional tinggi, dan tuntutan t…
Melalui buku ini, Dany Amrul Ichdan menghadirkan berbagai gagasan dan pemikiran konkret untuk menjawab tantangan itu. Terinspirasi oleh pemikiran Prof. Dr. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, ia merumuskan konsep DAI (Distinctive, Adaptive, Inclusive) sebagai fondasi serta kerangka kerja penyusunan kebijakan hilirisasi dan industrialisasi. Selain itu, Dany juga terinspirasi pemikiran dosen pembimbingnya …
Rare Earths elements are composed of 15 chemical elements in the periodic table. Scandium and yttrium have similar properties, with mineral assemblages, and are therefore referred alike in the literature. Although abundant in the planet surface, the Rare Earths are not found in concentrated forms, thus making them economically valued as they are so challenging to obtain. Rare Earths Industry…