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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. 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. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Taught two of the largest and most popular courses in Harvard’s history, ‘Positive Psychology’ and ‘The Psychology of Leadership.’ Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited.

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Case Study: Culture Clash in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. 2 Chemical Company, were very active.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources'

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. But there is another way to tackle these problems and find meaning in work.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. There are, of course, many challenges to a wider mobilization of private sector efforts around the UN global goals.

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