Customers
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This is why I believe that companies should find ways to give consumers more information about the carbon footprint of their products, and to promote more sustainable behavior among their
customers.
Guns require just a little training to operate, whereas an electrical utility requires a large team of people with varied expertise to run the generators, install and service the transmission lines and sub-stations, limit theft, and compel
customers
to pay their bills on time.
For example, the SEC has traditionally thought about adequate equity capital in a regulated business, primarily as the amount needed to help compensate
customers
in the event that individual firms fail.
But negative interest rates impose costs on savers and banks, which are then passed on to
customers.
The restaurant’s customers, like my French friends now, could not have cared less.
Left at this stage, knowledge is simply intellectual property, access to which is restricted to paying
customers.
Third-party data aggregators are already allowing
customers
to compare prices across online and brick-and-mortar shops.
Many also permit
customers
to compare quality ratings, safety data (drawn, for example, from official injury reports), information about the provenance of food, and producers’ environmental and labor practices.
Customers, competitors, and even suppliers seldom knew what stock bookstores held.
Nowadays, by contrast, bookstores not only report what stock they carry but also when customers’ orders will arrive.
In Tanzania, small power producers are now able to sell to
customers
without going through a lengthy licensing process.
In India, remote cellular towers, which would otherwise have to be powered by diesel generators, are serving as “anchor customers” for new mini-grids.
A bank that suddenly has to repay its interbank debt must cut credit to its own
customers
or sell off other assets, leading to large losses.
And it is not clear what other kind of regulation would be helpful to
customers.
All of a sudden, issuers had much more influence on the rating agencies, which, like any good seller, were ready to bend a little not to alienate important
customers.
A number of anti-virus companies compete to offer consumer security services; each ISP could select one, or offer its
customers
a choice of three, for example.
ISPs would throttle traffic from ISPs that did not join the security collective, and pretty soon their
customers
would complain, forcing them either to join or find themselves relegated to the underworld, from which it would be hard to launch attacks because no one would accept their traffic.
ISPs need to pass these costs on to their
customers.
So
customers
need to demand security as part of their service, while ISPs need to shun ISPs that don’t comply.
The targets should be ISPs that willfully serve criminal customers, refusing to deal with complaints to the point that ignorance is no longer a legitimate excuse.
For example, a new directive requires non-household
customers
to be able to choose their electricity supplier by July 2004 and their gas supplier by July 2007.
But the directive ignores household customers, who in 2001 were able to choose their electricity supplier in only five EU States and their gas supplier in only three.
Because banks often do not consider the behaviors and aspirations of poor customers, they do not always offer the products and services the poor need.
Given banks’ fiduciary obligations to their customers, this is not an entirely bad trait.
Yet banks and other financial institutions should realize that risk protection is perfectly compatible with service to poor
customers.
Its strength resides in its people, its culture, and the goodwill it has built up among its
customers
and suppliers.
As a result, many simply learned to manage their companies’ short-term share price at the expense of attention to their products and
customers.
Indeed, in many cases, the CEO – frequently a Wall Street-endorsed “superstar” parachuted in to “shake things up” – now is the company, despite having little knowledge of its products, customers, and competitors.
But, given falling demand for gas, Russia had already begun renegotiating contracts in Europe and giving
customers
discounts.
The French economy, in turn, is suffering because its
customers
in southern Europe are in trouble.
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