Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. Andrew Liveris.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

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. I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. ” It worked.

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Operations Chemicals Metrics System 54

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 32

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014).

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Nonetheless, today, the Bolognese “Packaging Valley” stands out internationally for its ability to meet the specialized needs of manufacturers throughout the world.

Education 28

Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. We’d all be served by identifying more ways to develop positive collegial relationships at work.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Study Exercises Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Redesigning products to meet environmental standards or social needs offers new business opportunities.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. With that background, please consider the Extreme Tech report FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator. Escrow accounts were not as protected.

Pharmaceuticals 77

Pharmaceuticals Industry Operations Chemicals 77

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Let's start from my technical preparation in business cases, for the record I'm 24 years old and I hold a MSc in chemical and bio engineering, with no business background whatsoever. So, you could see how consultants have meetings with clients. which is the same as how a candidate should have a meeting with an interviewer.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 36

Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Chipotle has ramped up efforts to improve food safety since then, reportedly hiring two leading food safety experts and investing $10 million in helping smaller suppliers meet their updated safety standards. Operations in a Connected World. HBR: Chipotle emphasized a shorter supply chain and sourcing from local growers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Think Rube Goldberg contraption meets MacGyver, but without the playfulness. Biologists can learn about a metabolic pathway in a cell from a mutation, or discern how an organism develops from an embryo by seeing how genetic errors are handled. But woe betide the person who must maintain or fix such as monster.

Construction 28

Construction System Software Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. the EU, and Japan have agreed to develop “joint action” on China’s subsidies.

Policies 28

Policies Industry Government Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

Energy 28

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