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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. Their work responsibilities include web design database development as well as designing a company’s IT approaches and strategies. Software Developers. Operations Research Analyst.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States. Helena had dreamed of starting a nonprofit that would seek out, mentor, and support high-potential entrepreneurs in Latin America. operations. And yet her instinct was to oppose the idea. It didn’t have U.S.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

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Bologna Shows How a Business Cluster Can Stay Vibrant for Centuries

Harvard Business Review

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. In developing countries, women spend 25% of their day collecting water and 40 hours per month collecting fuel for their families.

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