Building Personal Strength

APRIL 19, 2010

Subjects report dreams five times as often in this fourth stage. The most plausible explanation for why we sleep is that when the brain is active during waking hours, brain cell metabolism produces chemical byproducts. Coates, Ph.D., , Copyright 2010. I could see them but they couldn't see me. Post by Dennis E.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

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. What if oil cost $500 a barrel?" "Can

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

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. But midsize companies such as EORM shop carefully, making sure the deal is in line with their core strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 27, 2010

I am simply observing the outcome of a leadership act: a high level leader who reports to a higher level leader within an organization took his discontent public and he had to leave the organization as a result. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I enjoy learning from you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. “It wouldn’t have been the right time,” she said, and acknowledges the extremely supportive managers she reported into at the time. This propelled her into a re-accelerated career phase.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Many People Are Born Gays and Lesbians - Theyre Not That Way by Choice Should two people of the same sex be allowed to marry? If this chemical process is thrown out of balance, sexuality in the brain can easily fail to develop normally. Copyright 2010. November 10, 2010 5:28 PM Denny Coates said.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. If so, why?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it? 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers.

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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. In June, it was reported that Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS6, will include gay and lesbian couple icons as emoticon selections.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. We analyzed every conflict minerals report submitted to the SEC in 2014, 2015, and 2016 (though our paper only includes results for the first two years). We wanted to find out.

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