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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

From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc. EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions.

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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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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. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

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. ” Improving risk management. households spend 3% of annual electricity budgets on heating water to wash clothes.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in their original article, “conventional planning operates on the premise that managers can extrapolate future results from a well-understood and predictable platform of past experience.” ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. BTS GROUP KEY STATS. BTS Group Website: www.bts.com.

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