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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

(Scope 2) but have paid less attention to “indirect emissions resulting from value chain activities” (Scope 3) , that is emissions that occur outside the direct organization, for example in the supply chain, at business partners, or from end-users of their sold products. Companies are increasingly being required to report on Scope 3. .

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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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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. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Household Products. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Marketing & Sales. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology. Cloud Computing. Commercial Oil.

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How to Build a High Trust Work Culture

LSA Global

When compared to lower trust companies, the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies found that employees in high-trust companies are: 50% more productive. 106% more energetic. 40% more likely to stay longer, and. 76% more engaged. The Neuroscience of Trust. Empower Employees.

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