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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

A friend of mine is a chemical plant manager and he said that he pays his engineers $110k and he is worried that they aren’t paying enough. Allows you to focus on different aspects of organizations – restructuring, selection, retention, leadership development, etc. HVAC - Heating and Air. These pay $100K-$250K starting off.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization. Whatever the motives, though, SBOs do enable successive waves of add-on acquisitions to the initial divested business.

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2014 Will Be the Year of the Business Remix

Harvard Business Review

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. Other major industries, like computers, media, autos, chemicals, oil, and financial services are not far behind. A bid by Sprint for T-Mobile may test that limit this year.

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Create a Work Environment That Fosters Flow

Harvard Business Review

And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. Let’s take them one at a time.

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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. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Suzanne Ackerman-Berman at Pick n' Pay in South Africa is leading an innovation lab to help small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs become reliable suppliers to the retail industry.

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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science.

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What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018

Harvard Business Review

But tech is disrupting even this newly restructured industry, as automobiles become computers on wheels. But what happened this year in chemicals is real, not speculation. The remix of industrial conglomerates almost feels like an afterthought – we are used to seeing large companies continually reshuffle their assets.