HSBC Wants to be known as the “world’s local bank.” This tagline reflects HSBC’s positioning as a globe-spanning financial institution with a unique focus on serving local markets. Originally the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, HSBC was established in 1865 to finance the growing trade between China and the United Kingdom. It’s now the second largest bank in the world. Despite serving over 100 million customers through 9,500 branches in 85 countries, the bank works hard to maintain
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practices philanthropy and believes in doing good for the planet. The eco-friendly hotel décor features reclaimed and recycled construction materials (Pearce, 2012, p. 10-2). I believe the concept is to create a themed based hotel that is catered to a green living approach to life and have some fun doing it. The mission and vision statements for the new owner group of The Good Hotel are as follows: Our Mission At Haiyi Hotels, we endeavor to make a difference in the lives of our guests and associates
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Why Go Green in the Hospitality Field Shelby Little RES/351 October 12, 2015 John Gilpin Why Go Green in the Hospitality Field I was recently put in charge of guaranteeing that the hotel I work for is classified as a green hotel. Several changes were put in place that helped to bring this into play. This paper is designed to explain what “Going Green” is and why it is so important. Environmentalism has become a great concern to businesses; this is being influenced by the recent jump
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CareGroup Executive Summary CareGroup is an alliance of healthcare providers that seeks to offer a diverse range of high-quality care to residents of eastern Massachusetts. The CareGroup team was formed through a merger of major hospitals including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, New England Baptist Hospital, Deaconess-Glover Hospital and Deaconess-Nashoba Hospital—all in an effort to combat rising industry competition and to increase bargaining power against health
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trait. Background Research Scientific names of fish Kingdom-Animalia Phylum-Chordata Class-Actinoptergii Order-Cyprinodontiformes FamilyPoecilidae Scientific name-Xiphophorus maculatus “platy” Scientific name-Xiphophorus hellerii “green swordtail” (Source:http://www.itis.gov/) Platies are little freshwater 5.1-6.4cm fish that live for 3-5 years they were found in South America and now are household pets. Females have a fan shaped anal fin with wide bellies and a dark gravid spot
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Thinker Session 3 What was the overall, main message shared by the speakers? (2-3 sentences) The main message of the speakers was pretty much their own experiences, and how their farms operate. It was really interesting to see the different types of farming. All three of them were completely different than what we do on my home farm. They shared pros and cons of how they farm, and what they’re doing in the future to make the way they farm better. What were the main concerns/observations/experiences
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Wal-Mart’s Green Washing Wal-Mart is green washing because it claims to be pursuing a 100% renewable energy goal; however, the goal is unrealistic due to Wal-Mart’s lack of commitment. Green washing is a strategy in which a company improves its reputation by claiming to be green, when it is not. Wal-Mart advocates argue that the 100% renewable goal will be achieved because Wal-Mart is changing its sources of energy. Although Wal-Mart has started to use renewable energy, the rate of progress is too
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Tieguanyin Tea simplified Chinese: 铁观音 (tiěguānyīn) traditional Chinese: 鐵觀音 Jyutping: tit3 gwun1 yam1 Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thih-koan-im; literally "Iron Guanyin or Iron Avalokiteśvara" or 'Tikuanyin' / 'Tit Koon Yum' Tieguanyin, Guanyin, Guanshiyin, are the names of the Chinese Goddess for over 20 centuries. Since then, Japan name Guanyin as Kannon, in Korea as Guam-eum. For about 200 years to 300 years, Chinese Buddhism Guanyin also influenced the south Asia nations and the south Asia people re-named
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The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy effi ciency of datacenters through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very fi rst white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Effi ciency” to refi ne the nomenclature and intent of that paper. In that paper, The Green Grid proposed the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its reciprocal,
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this article, the author talks about accounting firms going green. Some firms are doing this by going paperless. On the other hand, some firms are reluctant to go green. The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a paperless office. The author is doing this discussion because he wants to help his readers have a better understanding of how and why more and more accounting firms are deciding to go green. Going green was first seen as a way of reducing negative effects on the
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