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A Global CEO study by Accenture and the UN Global Compact has shown that 94% of CEOs think that their board should discuss sustainability. And yet there is a real danger that boards are not living up to expectations on sustainability, paying lip-service to the concept rather than fully embedding social and environmental issues into their strategies and operations. Talking Sustainability in the Boardroom sets out why this is the case, identifies the obstacles, and then explains the opportunities for the long-term performance of the organisation that can arise through focusing on social and environmental issues. Written by two leading specialists in sustainability who have significant experien...
The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Int...
Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability, 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs, CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies, including 3M, BASF, BP, DuPont, Google, GE, Huawei, IKEA, Interface, Marks Spencer, Natura, Nestle acute;, Nike, Novo Nordisk, Patagonia, Shell, Tata, Toyota, Unilever and...
The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 157 contributions included in the DUXU proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this three-volume set. The 49 papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on design thinking; user experience design methods and tools; usability and user experience evaluation methods and tools.
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political, cultural, and spiritual. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfull...
O projeto editorial CONSELHEIRAS DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO tem como propósito compartilhar a trajetória de conselheiras e incentivar a participação feminina nos conselhos na administração de empresas, de startups, na administração em capital aberto ou fechado. Além de fomentar discussões sobre equidade de gênero em conselhos. A obra traz depoimentos de 23 conselheiras que atuam nos mais diversos setores como: Agronegócio, Telecomunicações, Bens de Capital, Varejo, Mineração, entre outros. A motivação deste projeto é o fato que apenas 10,4% dos cargos em conselhos de administração de empresas brasileiras são ocupados por mulheres. Esse número equivale a quase metade da média ...
Alberto Ribeiro Lamego “Gente da Gente” Geólogo, Geógrafo, Engenheiro de Minas. 1946 dizia Alberto Ribeiro Lamego: Tem que fazer um Porto em águas Sanjoanense. Precisamos de Navios de Aço Campos e São João da Barra estão irmanados. Tem ouro negro no subsolo campista. A Maria de Guerra precisa de uma Base no Açu. São João da Barra atende: Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais. Campos é o produtor, São João da Barra o Escoamento do produto. Primeiro Latino Americano a fazer um Mapa-Múndi. Inaugurou a Biblioteca do IBGE com suas quatro obras Sociogeográficas. Lamego Filho gostava de falar Antropogeográfica. O Homem e o Brejo, O Homem é a Restinga, O Homem e a Guanab...
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