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ESG Needs To Be Core To Business As Usual

The Horizons Tracker

. “But then people quickly realized that this is fluff, especially with more information being made available on sites like Glassdoor, and so this has created a real external incentive to be more ethical.” For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety.

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Would You Work for a Tobacco Company?

Harvard Business Review

Career planning Corporate social responsibility Ethics' It’s not an easy question, which is why it’s often avoided or ignored. But thinking about it explicitly is well worth doing at any stage of your career.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). He has spent more than 15 years investing in industries such as healthcare, energy, industrials, and technology. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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Jonah Lehrer's Mistake — And Ours

Harvard Business Review

The headline : "Jonah Lehrer Was Going to Give a Speech on Ethics. As has been documented in Fortune , former directors of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia Bank resurfaced in no time on other corporate boards like Verizon, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, and Nike. It's Canceled, Obviously".

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The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

This matters because prediction is an input to a host of activities including transportation, agriculture, healthcare, energy manufacturing, and retail. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them. First, we will start using prediction to perform tasks where we previously didn’t.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Making these decisions requires that directors have expertise, exercise informed judgment, and be guided by an ethical compass. As the director of an energy company told us: “A lot depends on the expertise of the board. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.