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Life Finds a Way

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acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010. The development threatens to undermine one of the main benefits of genetically modified crops: that they reduce the need for chemical pest control, says the Wall Street Journal.' But the rootworm has modified its genetics too.

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Experimenting In Your Leadership Laboratory (No Bunsen Burners.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Experimenting In Your Leadership Laboratory (No Bunsen Burners Necessary) by Starbucker on July 4, 2010 As a leader, I do not often think of myself as a scientist. Popularity: 1% [ ? It could be your best decision in a while!

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

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A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

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But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow.

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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010. In 2005, they launched a U.S. By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline.

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How the BP Commission Dropped the Ball

Harvard Business Review

The Commission could have looked at the recommendations of BP's own accident report issued in September 2010. When he succeeded Tony Hayward , in September 2010, Bob Dudley said: "There are lessons for us relating to the way we operate, the way we organize our company and the way we manage risk.".