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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. And, frankly, it makes me sick. They are almost destined to fail. Never show again.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. And, frankly, it makes me sick. They are almost destined to fail. Never show again.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Since the advent of agricultural chemicals in the nineteenth century, a variety of people have warned of risks to public health and the environment, but these people largely struggled to attract an audience until the late 1960s, when organic farming, natural food stores and organic food start-ups started to gain traction. Early Struggles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. So allow me. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. But just as valuable is the company''s ability to energize and empower front-line employees. The projects produced financial and environmental benefits, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Japan is in a state of crisis at present , but its future may be in safe hands judging by the manner in which the country's young people have rallied in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis that struck on March 11, 2011. However, those stuck en route had no way of knowing where to go.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Around the same time, the French beauty company, L’Oréal, said it would stop selling its flagship brand, Garnier, in the country. And Western Internet companies such as Yahoo!,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. of the time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. 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

MARCH 21, 2012

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. I'm also an owner. We did that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Some companies have ridden this wave. Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe. How can this be?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. ’ The companies exist to exploit existing businesses, not to create new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

These are important numbers to wrap your head around, but what do they really mean for countries and companies? For perspective, in 2011 carbon intensity improved just 0.8%. 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011. Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994. How fast do we have to change?

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