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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. In all, four workers were killed.

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

million in stock from their former partner Cisco Systems and, over the next year and a half, acquired 40 international subsidiaries from Arthur Anderson, who had just collapsed, and the German and Austrian consulting firms of KPMG. BearingPoint was also in the midst of integrating all of its international acquisitions into the old system.

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The Science of Burnout: Interview with Dr. Sangeeta Pati

Consulting Matters

What I realized when I started traveling around the world and working with midwives and traditional birth attendants is that the tools that I had learned at Georgetown where I trained, which were mostly centered around pharmacy and surgery, were limited. There's many more tools than pharmacy and surgery. Dr. Pati: Yes. Betsy : Wow.

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business

invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. Track the results through regular reviews that flag areas where frontline staff might game the system. Training and Tools — Often Afterthoughts — Can Have a Big Payoff.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. And as customers use Blast IQ and contribute more of their own data, over time, the company will have a large enough dataset to train more powerful machine learning models.

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How the Internet of Things Can Prepare Cities for Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Ineffective communication channels, overburdened response systems, satellite disruptions, and internet blackouts further impede people from getting the help they need. Sensors can also be used to detect the presence of harmful gases or chemicals emanating from a storage tank, factory, or plant in the path of destruction.

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

MishTalk

Given all the media hype about the severe shortage of skills in the US and the need for more education and training, inquiring minds may be interested in alternative views. That job ended when Chase and Chemical merged. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system.