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Why Happiness Is a Choice

Frank Sonnenberg Online

has provided consumer health and finance news to over 20 million readers worldwide. Because, aside from those with serious chemical imbalances, happiness is a physiological reaction, a result of the interaction between mind and body. has provided consumer health and finance news to over 20 million readers worldwide.

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7 Interesting Reasons to Invest In Platinum Today

Strategy Driven

Majority of the industries like medical, glassworks and dies, dental applications, chemical processing and petroleum refining now use platinum as a catalytic controller or a major component. Around more than 20% of consumer goods use platinum, while more uses are still being discovered. Current Volatility.

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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.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. For entrepreneurs, why start something new in such an environment? We need to find ways to bring that environment back. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' In the guitar business , too.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business Review

In this case the data and analytics function created its own proprietary consumer data base, stitched together from many sources, and developed a proprietary cloud-based environment that allows it to engage consumers across all their social media platforms. In this model, IT and the data and analytics unit are parallel service organizations.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen. But Rohm and Haas wasn’t always like that. Commitment to diversity is a journey and it takes time.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Directors are also consistent in their views of the key challenges to achieving their companies’ strategic objectives: attracting and retaining top talent, the regulatory environment, and domestic competitive threats top the list for directors from both parties. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).