Weak economic growth and low foreign investment coming into Medan City from 2018-2022 are the basis for selecting an effective strategy to be implemented in City. This study aims identify analyze factors formulate increasing city of Medan. The method used this is SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threats) AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) analysis. results research show that ther...

For over a decade now, AI techniques have been applied to some of the hardest problems faced by business today, often with stellar results and a tenfold-plus return on investment. One of the major problems faced by businesses in the 1990s is how to produce environmentally friendly products and stay profitable. A pioneering consortium at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is using AI, combined wit...

According to the concept of green supply chain, in this paper, we introduce a multi-method multiple criteria approach to develope more appropriate green supplier programs and practices. In reality, investigation into this field of study has just begun. We propose a combination of new fuzzy clustering means (FCM) better than the traditional clustering method and technique for order of preference...

This paper analyzes the effects of the green transformation on the German electricity sector with respect to the energy-political triangle. It focuses on how the development of renewable energies will affect security of electricity supply. In a cost-benefit analysis, the value of supply security is compared with its costs of provision. More specifically, the benefits of maintaining the present ...

In grasses, food reserves in crowns and rhizomes support herbage production and allow regrowth in the spring. One important factor leading to the relative competitiveness of Kentucky bluegrass and smooth brome is that they initiate spring regrowth earlier than their native counterparts in the mixed-grass prairie. It still remains to be tested if there is a greater biomass investment to crowns o...

The growing ubiquity of electronic devices is increasingly consuming substantial energy and rare resources for materials fabrication, as well as creating expansive volumes of toxic waste. This is not sustainable. Electronic biological materials (e-biologics) that are produced with microbes, or designed with microbial components as the guide for synthesis, are a potential green solution. Some e-...

Increased concern for the environment has increased the number of investment opportunities in mutual funds specialized in promoting responsible environmental attitudes. This paper examines the performance and risk sensitivities of US green mutual funds vis-à-vis their conventional peers. We also analyze and compare this performance relative to other Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) mutual f...

Introduction Following deregulation of the principal energy markets, and EU failure to impose harmonised taxation on polluting emissions, some European countries have moved towards market based greening of energy supply. This move is demanding, however, as political authorities thereby engage extensively not only in market regulation, but also in market construction, even to the extent of takin...

This paper proposed a sustainability balanced scorecard (SBSC) framework to measure the sustainable performance of the semiconductor industry. Based on the principle of four perspectives of balanced scorecard (BSC), of which two were changed from the financial and customer perspectives to sustainability and stakeholder perspectives to deal the insufficiently addressed issue of corporate social ...