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How to Answer: “What is your greatest achievement?” interview question

HR Digest

Preparing for an interview means researching the company you are interviewing at, polishing up on your skillets and trying to find unique answers to stock questions like: What made you apply at our company? He or she also wants to know what sets you apart from the other candidates and what are your values and ethics. .

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How to Answer: “What is your greatest achievement?” interview question

HR Digest

Preparing for an interview means researching the company you are interviewing at, polishing up on your skillets and trying to find unique answers to stock questions like: What made you apply at our company? He or she also wants to know what sets you apart from the other candidates and what are your values and ethics. .

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Be Your Own Talent Scout

Harvard Business Review

But equally important is character, by which I mean solid ethics and especially the ability to inspire trust. Then I went to work for Nabisco following the Barbarians at the Gate leveraged buyout fiasco, and had to help rebuild the company. We have built other capabilities within our company to do our own talent scouting, as well.).

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

When contaminated meat or vegetables are recalled, consumer advocates demand more transparency from food supply chains. Rather than asking why or how this happened to a person with an almost perfect record of past behavior, the company focused on the facts instead of the reasons for those facts.

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Corporate Sustainability Efforts: Feast or Famine?

Harvard Business Review

But in the report " Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point ," MIT and BCG prove their point with a fast-rising graph of companies that recently put sustainability "on the management agenda.". I've seen it time and again in the companies that I work with or study. But most companies are missing a big step.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Cash outlays are always risks. by Hank Moore.