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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. It was like we were mad scientists fiddling around with different chemical formulas. That’s where we need to look”.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Intrapreneurs know they can't get to the goal by themselves, but they also know that if they don't lead the change, others may not have the opportunity or foresight to get on board.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

After earning a degree in chemical engineering and spending eleven years in production roles at Procter & Gamble, Lynanne was drawn to P&G HR where she spent the next ten years in various roles, before moving over to Whirlpool HR four years ago. That needs to change.

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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). The goal is giving students a vocabulary and capability for interactively understanding the links between technology design and construction. What makes a prosthetic limb responsive?

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. That said, you should set concrete goals for injury rates at your company.