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Oral care Toothpaste industry, from linear to circular
Executive summary Toothpaste industry is a high growing industry worldwide and more precisely in the emergent markets. The rise in consciousness of oral health has helped vendors introduce different oral hygiene product categories for global customers and professionals. This industry generates high level of waste due to non-recyclable parts and products. Thus, for this study we choose to focus on the linear business model of toothpaste tube. This report analyzes, in the first part, the current business model of Colgate-Palmolive toothpaste tube industry and how it affects badly the environment and how it generates several negative externalities. It explores also how and where a circular business model can be introduced…
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Colors
Colors ! Et si on remplace le langage par des couleurs ? Il y a une infinité de couleurs qu’il sera facile de faire correspondre chacune d’elle à une expression précise. Les couleurs ne représenteront pas les mots mais les états d’âme, les phrases, les expressions ou même les longs monologues ! On sera donc dans un « Mandarin » universel où la vie devient colorful ! « Life is like a box of crayons », John Mayer, il faudra donc choisir les box avec 64 couleurs ! Et pourtant, il y a 3 couleurs de base pour créer le reste. Le noir étant l’absence de couleur ou le silence, et le blanc est…
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Better Man
She makes me smileShe thinks the way I thinkThat girl makes me wanna be betterTook her down Bleecker StreetSaw she drank the way I drinkI kiss the sky to send her blue a letterThat girlMakes me wanna be a better manYe should she see fitGonna treat her like a real man canShe’s fearless, she’s freeOh she is a real live wireAnd that girlShe’s got me feeling so much betterOh you trade all the money in the worldJust to see this girl’s smileAll the while, she’ll make you feel so much betterOh that girl, makes me wanna be a better manAnd should she see fit, gonna treat her like a real…
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Tribes and tribalism- processes, problems and (possible) solutions in the organizational setting.
Tribes and tribalism- processes, problems and (possible) solutions in the organizational setting. Introduction During the last twelve years I used to organize or to be part of large and different groups of hikers in morocco. Every time a strange thing happens during and at end of the journey. It might be the first time they meet each other, but the hikers create instinctively small informal groups inside the big one. Even if the group have the same main purpose, which is get safely the summit of the mountain, the small groups have different cross-purposes: Taking pictures, challenging the others, being the first to get to the summit, etc. The competitive…
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Business in Society: CSR, SD & Ethics
École des Ponts Business School’s code of ethical conduct Introduction In compliance with the values and reputation of Ecole des Ponts Business School, and in respect of its core values, this present code of ethical conduct has been elaborated to set the general principles to which every member of Ecole des Ponts Business School has to adhere and accept. The ultimate goal of Ecole des Ponts Business School is to promote and maintain excellence and integrity through every action it undertakes. This code constrains the whole École des Ponts Business School population (students and staff) to unite around our values: 1) Leverage business and technology to serve human progress across…