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Wharton Business School, Electronic Recyclers International Team Up on E-waste Initiative

Fresno, Calif.-based Electronic Recyclers International has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership to develop next generation solutions for e-waste recycling.

How the Company Bean Counter Can Really Demonstrate His or Her Value

Brian Holland, the CFO and president of Fleet Advantage, a truck leasing and big data firm, was trying to put his finger on what it means to be a finance chief at the kind of fast-growing, sales-driven companies that have employed him over his more than 20-year career. And then he thought of something a former boss had said to him: “You’re one of the few bean counters that I can even stand to be around.”

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Fueled by Cheap Natural Gas, Reshoring Predicted to Continue, But Pace Is Expected to Slow

Manufacturers typically evaluate seven critical areas when it comes to operational decision making: transportation and energy costs; market demand for their products; rising labor costs in China and other developing nations; access to talent, tax and regulatory policies; availability of capital; and currency trends.

Are You Flirting With Disaster if You're Not Involved in Global Online Markets?

There's a wake-up call for American digital marketers who aren't actively developing their international online markets. While there are many risks to taking your business online to other nations, the risk of not going global, or of waiting too long to make the move, almost certainly will be greater.

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Should Centralized Procurement Give Way to 'Specialist' Purchasing in Some Units?

Organisation-wide purchasing is often the responsibility of the procurement team with the business reliant on them to source the right goods and services at the best price. But different departments within an organisation will often have very specific and specialist requirements and there are significant merits in empowering selected personnel to source exactly what they need, when they need it.

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Walmart, Amazon Duke It Out on Price Optimization

Price optimization is the next frontier on the retail battle lines, with Walmart and Amazon waging a fierce battle to best each other on price. It's a fight that Amazon is winning thanks to its pricing strategy, according to the Price Perception Index (PPI) for digital retail.

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Overall U.S. Manufacturing Continues to Look Robust in 2015

The recent robust manufacturing performance should continue in the near-term despite marginal declines in some indicators, according to the quarterly MAPI Foundation Business Outlook, a survey conducted by the MAPI Foundation, the research affiliate of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation.

Chinese Multinationals on the Hunt for Talent - Especially for Supply Chain Professionals

The growth of Chinese multinational corporations will intensify talent competition in 2015, according to the latest annual Global Salary Survey from professional recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. Professionals now view Chinese companies as an attractive employment option due to their promising prospects and competitive remuneration packages – which often include employee stock options.

Manufacturing Capacity Is Leaving China. But Where's It Going?

We've heard it before: manufacturing is leaving China and coming back to the West. But the reality isn't that simple.

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With All the Research, Innovation at Hand, CPG Companies Largely Clueless Which Products Will Succeed

Consumer packaged goods companies have a big problem: They have almost no idea which of their new products will end up being popular with consumers. Despite big data, despite a decade of heavy investment in innovation, despite chief innovation officers and efficient R&D, failure rates for new products have hovered at 60 percent for years. Two-thirds of new product concepts don't even launch.

Research Says Global GDP Growth Rate May Drop Almost 40 Percent Over Next 50 Years

For the last 50 years, the world economy has benefited from a demographic boom that has contributed 1.8 percent to average annual global GDP increases, helping to generate an unprecedented level of growth. This demographic headwind is coming to an end.

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Combined Procurement Helps Pharma Distributors Stay in the Black

One of the most powerful middleman industries in the global economy – pharmaceutical distributors – is emerging from more than a half-decade of difficult transition.

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