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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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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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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. For example, a successful white male in a U.S.

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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. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.

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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).