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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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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. Is it a niche business catering to a specific industry? Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? Does it fill a need?

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance.

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Case Study: Culture Clash in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

As the president of Almond China, he wanted to show his Chongqing colleagues how much he cared about the topic under discussion: ethical business practices. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. listed companies.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Consider PPG Industries. for the S&P 500 Industrials. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry.

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Good Brands Gone Bad | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Unlike BP, who mismanaged an accident, Halliburton and Monsanto self-inflicted the ethical decline of their brand image over many years. The majority of Halliburton’s revenue is from the sale of products and services to the oil and gas industry. Monsanto offers, “Better Seed for a Brighter Future.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Directors in a range of industries have been stung by media reports that political intermediaries used corporate money to help fund causes or candidates adverse to a firm’s business interests or its espoused values and positions. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.