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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Identifying worthwhile ideas requires the ability and will to see new patterns in the same data everyone else is seeing. BASF is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. At BASF, chemical production sites are highly interlinked product flows resulting in efficient uses of resources.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. Companies such as GE Aviation and Safran are working on improving engine efficiency in order to reduce emissions.

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How the Internet of Things Can Prepare Cities for Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

When a disaster strikes, federal, state, and local governments need a coordinated strategy, accessible data, and a skilled workforce to manage the response. Using the most current technology could help them more efficiently and safely address these costly disasters. Gathering Data Before a Disaster Strikes. filo/Getty Images.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business

We also changed the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the space by controlling the number of common materials that emit these chemicals — e.g., surface cleaners, dry erase markers, dry cleaned clothing, and building materials. We modeled costs under four different types of ventilation systems in U.S.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. Winston : I agree with Mike that the focus on system change was notable. Andrew Liveris.

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Is There a Shortage of Skilled Workers? My Own Personal Experiences

MishTalk

But in a new report , my Center for Immigration Studies colleague Karen Zeigler and I analyze the latest government data and find what other researchers have found: The country has well more than twice as many workers with STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs. Both employment and wage data indicate that such workers are not in short supply.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

The firm was temporarily acquired by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1995 but was bought back by partners in 2006, just in time for the company’s 80th anniversary. Kearney specializes in 4 areas: Analytics Transformation, Big Data Analytics, Data Visualization and Predictive Analytics. remains in Chicago.