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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

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. For too long, organizations have approached talent management with ad-hoc talent strategies.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Kearney’s innovation practice: collaborative innovation, innovation portfolio management, innovation strategy and R&D performance strategy. Operations. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Innovation. Strategic IT.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast recalled to me, “Back in the early 2000s there were many things we wanted to accomplish with our online business but had a hard time doing because of the perception that we’d interfere with the well-oiled efficiency of the physical stores. ” A key word here is perception.

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