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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain

Harvard Business

Supply chains in commodity industries are often characterized by social and environmental abuse. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day. It is an environment rife with social and environmental abuse.

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Industrial Production Growing, Manufacturing Inching Along

MishTalk

The Fed G17 report shows Industrial Production is up 0.4% Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report. Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report. percent for a third straight sharp increase, mining pulled industrial production up 0.4

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White Americans’ Mortality Rates Are Rising. Something Similar Happened in Russia from 1965 to 2005

Harvard Business

However, history does offer a recent example of a large industrialized country where mortality rates rose over an extended period: Russia in the decades before and after the Soviet Union’s collapse. From 1965 to 2005 the mortality rates for nonelderly Russian men and women rose by an average of 1.5%

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Bain’s major industries of importance in the Middle East include Airlines & Transportation, Media, Mining, Oil & Gas, Retail, Private Equity, Social & Public Sector, Technology, Telecommunications, Utilities and Alternative energy (the oil will run out one day!). in revenue (wow!). Bain & Company. for example.

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What does a Business Consultant do?

ConsultX

The role of a Business Consultant As for the role of a consultant, this can change massively depending on the industry the individual works within and actual scope of work, but generally focusses on providing specific expert information. Accelo states: ?”A

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Free Yourself and Business from Market Myopia

Organizational Talent Consulting

A large global study of the empirical research on strategic leadership concluded that the positive impact on organizational performance is consistent regardless of the industry and whether the business is private or public. Strategic leadership reduces costs and increases revenue. You can escape market myopia and achieve strategic targets.

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Meet the New Challengers

BCG

The global challengers nearly quintupled their share of overseas revenue from 2005 through 2014. Outwardly, there has been little shift in the industry or geographic mix of the global challengers. Outwardly, there has been little shift in the industry or geographic mix of the global challengers. See Exhibit4.)

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