The Recovering Engineer

MAY 4, 2010

DISC Model FAQ’s: Can Your Personality Style Change Over Time May 4, 2010 by Guy Harris Filed under DISC Model , Video 3 Comments Guy Answers the Question: Can Your Personality Style Change Over Time? That simple statement then begs the question: Are you born with your personality style or is it developed over time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, a divested business may inherit assets and capabilities that have been starved of investment by its former parent. The second category is legacy factors from whose impact the business can only escape slowly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

David Walker, for example, described PepsiCo's "ReCon" (for "resource conservation") tool, a diagnostic for understanding in-plant water and energy use and creating strategies for reducing them. Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Most of its sales are in the developing world (including 40% in Africa) — where it sells its HIV drugs for about $350 per year per patient — yet it is as profitable as the pharma giants of Europe, North America, and Japan. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, Lycamobile, a big mobile VNO, focuses on expatriate communities looking for low-cost international pay-as-you-go calls in 19 countries. For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. 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.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 27, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Reply Guy Harris says: June 29, 2010 at 8:35 am Hi Kenny, Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. . You have a clear and factual communication style that I admire.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. There has been a steady increase in the number of large employers including sexual orientation in non-discrimination policies and offering same-sex partner benefits.

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