Topic outline

  • Pre-readings assignment


    Please, read at least one article from each category (digitalization, business, and renewable energy). The Beginners' Guide to Financial Statement is mandatory to all. Choose one article, the most interesting to you, and prepare a short, 3 minutes oral presentation with max 3 slides about the article (slides are optional). You may also use any other article about digitalization, business and renewable energy. The presentations will be given in the beginning of the course, Monday 4th of January 2021.


    Digitalization

    Digitization, Digitalization, And Digital Transformation: Confuse Them At Your Peril by Forbes:

    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/04/29/digitization-digitalization-and-digital-transformation-confuse-them-at-your-peril

    Unlocking success in digital transformations by McKinsey & Company:

    • https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/unlocking-success-in-digital-transformations

    Digital Transformation Comes Down to Talent in 4 Key Areas by Harvard Business Review:

    • https://hbr.org/2020/05/digital-transformation-comes-down-to-talent-in-4-key-areas

    The Evolving State of Digital Transformation by Boston Consulting Group:

    • https://www.bcg.com/publications/2020/the-evolving-state-of-digital-transformation

    Digital transformation: Improving the odds of success by McKinsey & Company:

    • https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/digital-transformation-improving-the-odds-of-success


    Business

    Beginners' Guide to Financial Statement by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:

    • https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/investorpubsbegfinstmtguidehtm.html

    2020 renewable energy industry outlook by Deloitte

    • https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/energy-resources/us-2020-renewable-energy-midyear-outlook.pdf


    Renewable energy

    Renewable Energy 101 by National Geographic:

    • https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/reference/renewable-energy/

    Fact Sheet: Energy Storage (2019) by Environmental and Energy Study Institute:

    • https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/energy-storage-2019

    Orecchini & Santiangeli, 2011. Beyond smart grids–the need of intelligent energy networks for a higher global efficiency through energy vectors integration. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 36: 8126-33

    • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.01.160

    Dehghani-Sanija et al., 2019. Study of energy storage systems and environmental challenges of batteries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 104: 192–208

    • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.01.023