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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. But let’s assume that Buddy is indeed an elf, developed and created by the North Pole to fill a need…to make toys.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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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. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please. Not at all.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. 1] McKinsey & Co.,