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Fulfilling Employee Needs – Ten Critical Issues for Leaders to.

The Recovering Engineer

Even when the list starts shifting to personal development, task accomplishment and money issues, there are still relationship based items mixed in. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I’d lump trust and respect and add training and development to the list.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

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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Why We Need Heretical, Holistic Green Thinking

Harvard Business Review

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. A narrow focus can actually backfire, as Stanford supply chain scholar Hau Lee points out in his October 2010 HBR article. David Struhs, of C3, similarly highlighted this holistic perspective. A tall order, maybe.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. 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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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

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. 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.

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What Work Looks Like for Women in Their 50s

Harvard Business Review

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40.

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