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Trees Aren’t A Silver Bullet For Solving Urban Air Pollution

The Horizons Tracker

The maps show that trees in urban areas help remove about 25% of the tiny particles created by human activities in Geneva Canton, as per the 2014 assessment of emissions in that region. These findings highlight how human activities release enough pollutants (nitrogen oxides) that lead to specific chemical reactions.

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Bringing your dog to work can promote wellbeing and productivity

HR Digest

allow employees to take their dogs to work, according to the Society of Human Resource Management – up from 4 percent in 2014. Coffee and canines make the workplace go around. Today, about 9 percent of employers in the U.S.

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What They Didn’t Teach You at Business School about Negotiation

Great Leadership By Dan

He dabbled with partners in electric cars, batteries, cement, chemicals, and office machines. Fifty were in countries ranging from Argentina to Canada, from Japan, China, and India to Italy, Germany, and France. The creative teams he developed laid the foundations for today’s music, movie, and telecommunications industries.

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2014 Will Be the Year of the Business Remix

Harvard Business Review

Investment bankers are giddy at the prospect of increased M&A activity in 2014. 2014 will be the year of the “business remix.” A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. As the business remix picks up in 2014, therefore, its forms will be more varied than before.

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Live Leadership Notes From Dr. Caroline Leaf At Catalyst 2014

Joseph Lalonde

Our minds will direct chemicals depending upon what we focus our thoughts upon. The post Live Leadership Notes From Dr. Caroline Leaf At Catalyst 2014 appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. One group became fat, another became bone, and the last group became skin. Wherever you direct your attention is what will grow. Leadership'

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Since its spin-off in July 2014, the capitalization of Seventy Seven Energy, the former oilfield services business of Chesapeake Energy, has melted by more than 75%, at least partially reflecting continued dependence on its former parent for about 90% of its revenues.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

Since the advent of agricultural chemicals in the nineteenth century, a variety of people have warned of risks to public health and the environment, but these people largely struggled to attract an audience until the late 1960s, when organic farming, natural food stores and organic food start-ups started to gain traction. Early Struggles.