Vol. 14 Nº 27 Ben Tran: Green Management: The reality of Being Green in Business 21 GREEN MANAGEMENT: THE REALITY OF BEING GREEN IN BUSINESS GESTIÓN VERDE: LA REALIDAD DE LA SOSTENIBILIDAD ECOLÓGICA EN LA GESTIÓN GERENCIAL Ben Tran1 ABSTRACT Green management and going green are not as clear cut and easy as hyped by the general media. While going ecologically green is indeed beneficial and appropriate, the process and procedure of becoming green is anything but easy. Firstly, turning green is
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Great Lakes: Great Decisions Professor BUS 499 January 8, 2012 Great Lakes: Great Decisions 1. Perform an analysis of the social/demographic, technological, economic, environmental/geographic, and political/legal/governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. The social segment that Great Lakes faced were the environmental groups that were publicly criticizing and putting
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on financial analysis and economics data analysis, I propose that divest 40% shares and keep the mainly control of Conoco. We believe that divesting Conoco from DuPont will: - permit DuPont to expand its life sciences business, while at the same time allowing Conoco to pursue its investment program in new and capital-intensive oil and gas projects; - facilitate future partnerships, combinations and other arrangements between Conoco and other entities in the oil and gas business; - allow
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Assignment 1 Assignment #1: Case 11: “Great Lakes: Great Decisions” By Norvinnia J. McLaurine For Professor Sonia Heywood BUS499: Business Administration Capstone October 17, 2010 1. Perform an analysis of the Social/Demographic, Technological, Economic, Environmental/Geographic, and Political/Legal/Governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Social/Demographic: * Brain
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competitor. The industry environment that Great Lakes is situated in is one that is characterized by global market shifts and pressures. At the moment, Great Lakes does not have any competition from possible competitors such as Ethyl Corporation, or Dow Chemical. However, they are beginning to receive criticism from the press on a global scale that is affecting their company’s image. If their corporate image is affected, then they are bound to see those affects trickle down into their profits in the near
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Background from Dow While leading Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) in the Plastics Business at The Dow Chemical Company, I witnessed the value of having a business-aligned IP strategy, implemented early in the development of a new technology platform. The difference between leaving IP development to the ad hoc process dependent on the initiative of the inventor and using IP strategy to guide R&D and new business development can be immense. The high performance elastomers business platform developed
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summary of the key project findings and recommendations for identifying and closing performance gaps. 2) Topical Chapters – These chapters provide, by subject, a graphical depiction of survey responses, discussion of key trends identified from an analysis of the data and write-ups of best practices harvested from in-depth interviews: Program Management & Organization –Includes sections on Budget, Staffing, Structure, Activities & Events, Hiring Top Talent (including interns and co-ops) and
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Stephen Whitlatch Management Practices Dr. Marzano 3/14/2016 SWOT Analysis: Monsanto Background Monsanto is an agricultural based company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The company is a world leader in agricultural seeds and crop protection chemicals. They produce seed brands like Asgrow and DeKalb and also manufacture Roundup brand herbicide and other lawn and garden herbicides to for residential use. Scientific advancements have allowed Monsanto to reduce challenges faced by
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4 111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 J. International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, Vol. 3, No. 1/2, 2006 Sustaining competitive advantage in the global petrochemical industry: a Saudi Arabian perspective Salem M. Al-Ghamdi Department of Management and Marketing, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, P.O. Box 667, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia E-mail: sghamdi@kfupm.edu.sa M. Sadiq Sohail* Department
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Towards the Sustainable Corporation: Win-Win-Win Business Strategies for Sustainable Development John Elkington §§ I often wake up in the middle of the night," Pope John XXIII once said, "and start thinking about grave problems—and decide to talk about them with the Pope. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope." Western industrial societies have undergone a similar awakening over the last three decades as the scale of the environmental and natural resource problems they face
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