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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. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? For some, say children (most likely his primary target audience), Buddy is an elf.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Praveen Kopalle – Associate Dean MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management and Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

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Would You Work for a Tobacco Company?

Harvard Business Review

Clearly, these organizations produce products that are harmful and addictive, and in the past have engaged in deceptive manufacturing and marketing practices that caused enormous damage and loss of life. In other words, tobacco companies are actually marketing against their own products, and doing so successfully.

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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. At the same time, we’re not arguing that conglomerates aren’t effective in emerging markets. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

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The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them. The year 1995 was heralded as the beginning of the “New Economy.” But economists by and large didn’t buy into the hype.

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Retailers Turn to "Soft Surveillance" to Fight Customer Anonymity

Harvard Business Review

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances. Policies like this have led to a 50% drop in crime in Merseyside, Liverpool. Work toward creating a unified framework for the integration of systems and data.

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