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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

N2Growth and Stanford Graduate Graduate School of Business are pleased to congratulate those individuals recognized on the 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO List. Leaders25 2020 Top CHRO Awards. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent

Harvard Business Review

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. If Unamano was to meet the strategic goal it had set out last year—to open affiliates in 25 countries by 2020—why wouldn’t it consider the city? From that perch, he saw only potential in Miami.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. 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. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it?

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

On the upside, similar calculations from WWF and McKinsey suggests that this pace of change –they endorse a 3% reduction in absolute emissions per year through 2020 – will actually be very profitable. states ), committed to a 600% increase in renewable energy by 2020. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. Unilever U.S. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. But last month the country also indicated coal use would rise until 2020 (albeit at a slower rate than the growth of renewables).

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