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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

Since 2005, many EU manufacturers have been paying for their carbon emissions via certificates under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), where emission rights are currently about 60 EUR per metric ton, while imports from countries with less strict climate regulations may face lower or no such cost for carbon emissions.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Digital Services. Industries. Financial Services. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Marketing & Sales. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology.

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How to Build a High Trust Work Culture

LSA Global

The Center also found that production of the chemical oxytocin – sometimes known as the “cuddle hormone” or the “love hormone” – is stimulated in the brain when you have a sense of a higher purpose and trust. The Neuroscience of Trust. Empower Employees.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. The data represent something more than a new offering. They are the basis of a new business model.

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