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2 episodes with mars incorporated
How can partnerships help overcome the barriers to regenerative agriculture and drive lasting change in the food system? In this episode of the Food Matters Live podcast, recorded live at our event in Manchester in November 2024, we once again explore how industry is embracing the move towards regenerative agriculture, but crucially through the lense of the power of partnerships. Our panel discusses the importance of financial incentives for farmers, the barriers to adopting regenerative practices, and the need for a systemic change in the agricultural sector. They also highlight the significance of measuring outcomes beyond carbon reduction, such as biodiversity and soil health, to ensure the long-term success of regenerative agriculture. Guests: Andrew Voysey, Chief Impact officer, Soil Capital Luc Beerens, Global Sustainable Sourcing Director, Mars Incorporated
Magda is a research professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute in Adelaide. She has been widely published in academic journals and authored two chapters in How Brands Grow 2.In this episode we discuss:The importance of curiosityThe impact of How Brands GrowThe Semmelweis effect and The Sharp EffectLearn, test and learnThe high performance culture at the Ehrenberg Bass InstituteThe benefit of being sceptical and open minded as a researcherGrowing categories v growing brandsThe challenge for small brands and marketersThe research behind raising pricesHow categories grow in the luxury sectorCan marketers do pricing?Talking to your customersIs marketing changing?The full transcript is available on the episode page. Magda Nenycz-ThielBefore her current role as Industry Growth Professor, Magda was Mars Professor of Marketing, a Chair funded by Mars Incorporated. Prior to this she led the Institute's Mars Marketing Lab, a R&D initiative funded by Mars Incorporated from 2013-2016.As Industry Growth Professor, Magda, together with a research team at the Institute, pioneers research into category growth and leads the Industry Growth Initiative which focuses on applying discoveries to improve the ways that growth investments are made within organisations.Magda's core areas of expertise are category and industry growth, e-commerce and neuromarketing. Her work has been published widely including in the Journal of Advertising Research, European Journal of Marketing and Journal of Business Research. She is also the author of two chapters in How Brands Grow Part 2, “Building Physical Availability” and “Online shopping – is it different?”.Magda regularly presents at domestic and international conferences to industry and academic audiences, as well as to the Institute's Sponsors. She publishes regularly in international journals and has also written a number of book chapters. Strategy Masterclass with Seth GodinI'm doing a series of strategy masterclasses with Seth Godin in Ireland this spring. If you use code Eximo (capital E) then you'll be able to grab a ticket for £225 instead of the full rate of £265.You get to work with Seth, who will be joining remotely from his NYC studio, with me in the room and the team from Horrible Brands to help out with brand strategy. Tickets available from here.Strategy Sessions Host - Andi JarvisIf you have any questions or want to talk about anything that was discussed in the show, the best place to get me is on LinkedIn or Instagram.Make sure you subscribe to get the podcast directly or sign up for it here to have it emailed when it's released. If you enjoyed the show, please give it a 5* rating.
In this podcast episode, Amir Bormand interviews John Cottongim, Co-Founder and CTO at Roots Automation, discussing the impact of process automation and generative AI in the insurance industry. John shares his extensive industry background and insights into how advanced technologies, mainly digital co-workers powered by generative AI, transform legacy systems and optimize processes in insurance companies. The conversation touches on data quality issues, simplifying complex business processes, and the future potential of narrow AI models tailored specifically for insurance. John emphasizes practical strategies for successful automation while maintaining data integrity and enhancing efficiency. The episode concludes with reflections on the evolving landscape of insurance and the promising role of technology. Highlights: 01:50 Challenges of Legacy Systems in Insurance 03:03 John's Background and Insights from AIG 05:29 Data Quality and Process Automation 09:51 Identifying and Automating Key Processes 13:03 Simplifying Complex Processes and User Adoption 22:16 The Future of Gen AI in Insurance Guest: John Cottongim is the Co-Founder and CTO of Roots Automation Inc., an Insurtech startup focused on delivering Digital Coworkers to the insurance industry, leveraging Roots' industry-leading insurGPT AI capabilities. Previously, John headed the Enterprise Automation Hub at Mars Incorporated and AIG's Automation program for Life, Retirement, and Global Business Services. Before his work in automation, John led Lean Transformation initiatives, working with teams across the globe to deliver customer value through process excellence and cultural change. John is a CFA® charter holder, Certified Scrum Product Owner®, and holds a Lean Competency System - Level 2a certificate from Cardiff University. He also holds an MBA from New York University and BS degrees in Finance and Accounting from Villanova University. https://linkedin.com/in/john-cottongim ---- Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek. We would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)
Treasury Wine Estates, the owner of Penfolds, will sell off some of its cheaper wine brands after budget drinkers tighten their purse strings. A US court has found that Google spent billions of dollars to illegally monopolise the online search market. Mars Incorporated is considering a takeover of Kellanova, the makers of Pringles and Coco Pops. — Build the financial wellbeing of your team with Flux at Work: https://bit.ly/fluxatworkDownload the free app (App Store): http://bit.ly/FluxAppStoreDownload the free app (Google Play): http://bit.ly/FluxappGooglePlayDaily newsletter: https://bit.ly/fluxnewsletterFlux on Instagram: http://bit.ly/fluxinstaFlux on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flux.finance—-The content in this podcast reflects the views and opinions of the hosts, and is intended for personal and not commercial use. We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, statement or other information provided or distributed in these episodes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
#79. Starting with the story of today's spotlight entrepreneur Franklin Clarence Mars, founder of the chocolate candy company Mars Incorporated, Sevana and Tiffany talk about the complicated dynamics of doing business with family. Topics in today's episode includes: - How to get your kids involved in the business and when - How to pay our kids through your business - What are proven ways to work with family, especially if you plan to have your kids inherit your business References: Gary Vee: Should you go into your family business? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkHKxyvVqsg BuildWitt/Jocko Willink: How to take over the family business - https://youtu.be/PysHDg935zM?si=5dMP00Ka1E3UUxqq For more on the Mars' family business: https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/mars-inc/ https://www.mars.com/about/history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Clarence_Mars "Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership" by John L. Ward: This book offers strategies for ensuring the long-term success and continuity of family businesses. "Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness" by Craig E. Aronoff, Stephen L. McClure, and John L. Ward: Focuses on the challenges and best practices in family business succession planning. "Succession: Are You Ready?" by Marshall Goldsmith: Provides practical advice on preparing for and managing the succession process. ************************ Our podcast is originally a video podcast, so see us on YouTube or Spotify too. ************************ Got questions or have a topic you want Sevana and Tiffany to cover? Email us at thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness@gmail.com and see your question answers or topic of interest discussed on a future episode! **************************** About BBSB - We are two business owners with two very different perspectives on building business, and the business behind that in order to achieve your goals. One of us built to sell, and will continue on the serial entrepreneur path, which means your focus and drive should include very particular tools and tips in order to achieve your goal. The other, is building a generational business, one that can go on long after she's let go of the wheel. This type of business also requires very specific tools and platforms to achieve this goal. Both women have been successful in their own right, but in honesty - haven't scratched the surface! Sponsorship Opportunities - Email us here: thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness@gmail.com Website - Check out our website! https://www.thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness.com Notice - As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. These earnings contribute towards the costs of creating this podcast and we greatly appreciate your support! Disclaimer - Details of today's story was inspired by true events but are not based on proven facts. Also, we are NOT licensed financial experts, nor do we give financial advice. Anything we share with you here on our podcast, whether it be a personal experience or submission, or advice/tips that have worked for us, or that we believe would work for you should not be viewed as either financial, business, or tax advice. We ask for you to do your research, have open and honest conversations with your company's own support providers and make decisions based upon that. Throughout this broadcast we will share our knowledge and give suggestions and hope you will receive them as part of your overall research to better your own company. #smallbusinessadvice #entrepreneurship #familybusiness #businesspodcast Alternative Titles: How to run a business with family Do's and Don'ts of a family business Keeping the peace in a family business
Andrew White from Saïd Business School and Adam Canwell from EY speak to Annick Tollenboom about complex stakeholder management. “Inspirational leadership and tone of the top is crucial to land the messages.” In the second series of Transformation Leadership2050 Dr Andrew White and Adam Canwell meet five global leaders who have led their organisations through significant change. What can we learn from their experience of addressing turning points in the transformation? In this episode they are joined by Annick Tollenboom, Portfolio, Programmme and Change Management Director at Royal Canin, a global leader in pet science, health and nutrition. Annick is leading a transformation of operational business efficiencies and effectiveness in the organisation. Royal Canin is a subsidiary of Mars Incorporated, so aligning the vision with the rest of the business and securing its buy-in is key. Annick talks to Andrew and Adam about the role of a leader in creating a space where your team can deliver success. How do leaders show up in a way that allows other people to thrive in a complex and tough environment? Featuring:Dr Andrew White, Senior Fellow of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.Adam Canwell, EY Oceania Workforce Advisory Leader.Annick Tollenboom, Royal Canin. Resources:• Subscribe to Andrew's Leadership2050 Newsletter on LinkedIn • Discover more articles, podcasts and videos from Saïd Business School on the challenges business leaders of the future need to consider on Oxford Answers • Follow us on Twitter @Oxford_Answershttps://www.sbs.ox.ac.ukProduced by Eve Streeter for Stabl.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
A deep dive into aligning people, purpose, and profits Picture this: An organization filled with people who feel like they belong… …where everyone from the C-Suite to the front-line can show up and do their best work… …and still have plenty of time and energy for their personal lives… …even in today's ever-changing, complex world of work. Now picture this: Consultants and coaches equipped with the knowledge, skills, and data to influence this type of culture transformation! If you're nodding your head because this is what your idealistic heart longs for – then grab your air pods now. On this episode of the Enough Already podcast, I have a powerful conversation with my former Disney colleague André Martin, PhD, who is a consultant who has helped some of the biggest consumer brands like Target, Nike, Google, and many more and the author of the book, Wrong Fit, Right Fit: Why How We Work Matters More than Ever. We chat about how to create organizational cultures that put the people first, even in today's complex and ever-changing marketplace, and how ensuring fit sets the stage for everyone to thrive. Tune in and discover: [0:04:55]: How talent fit is the key to culture quality (and a satisfying career) [0:31:19]: Why the pandemic didn't create but accelerated existing trends (and what those trends are) [0:33:59]: The psychology of recruiting and how it's a lot like dating [0:40:16]: Why being choosy about who you work with as a consultant or coach will transform your success and impact Listen in for proven and research-based best practices that create alignment and fit between you and the clients you work with and between their people and their purpose and profit priorities. Want to grow your own consulting or coaching business, thought leadership, and breakthrough brand? Check out my VIP business mentoring and brand messaging programs, custom-designed to help you get to the heart of what you do as a consultant or coach with the right words that resonate with your clients and get them to want to work with you at https://www.betsyjordyn.com/services About My Guest: André Martin, PhD, has held key senior leadership, advisory, and board roles dedicated to employee engagement and culture in some of the biggest consumer brands in the world including Target, Nike, Google, Mars Incorporated, and Disney. Whether his teams were unleashing the potential of Target's 350,000 employees by helping to build a more purpose-driven culture, activating a consumer-focused digital transformation at Nike by delivering a more value-driven, leader-led culture, or building a principle-led culture at Mars that resulted in five consecutive Gallup Great Place to Work awards, André's mission has always been to help make growth companies as engaging as the consumer brands they create. When he isn't helping companies thrive, Andre is a guest lecturer at top universities on design thinking and innovation, a committed husband and father of two wonderful children, an owner of a sustainable mushroom farm in the Ozark Mountains, and can otherwise be found hiking the rain-soaked trails around Portland with his two English labs (Bode and the Fonz). You can learn more about André and buy his book at: https://www.wrongfitrightfit.com/ About Me: The Enough Already podcast is hosted by Betsy Jordyn. I'm an ex-Disney consultant turned business mentor and brand messaging strategist who helps consulting and coaching business owners clarify their brand messaging and positioning, create a website presence that positions them as sought-after experts, land clients with ease and integrity, and take their place as thought leaders and influencers in their niche. Go to www.betsyjordyn.com to learn more about how I empower consultants and coaches to monetize their best-at-strengths and authentic passions to make a bigger difference in the world. Links: Show notes and transcript at https://www.betsyjordyn.com/podcasts/enough-already/episodes/2148489657 Discover your Consulting or Coaching Superpower by taking my free quiz at https://www.betsyjordyn.com/superpower-quiz Get your Custom Business Development Resource library by taking my free quiz at https://www.betsyjordyn.com/resource-library-quiz Swipe my Disney Secrets to Leadership, Consulting & Performance Excellence at https://www.betsyjordyn.com/disney Sign up for a VIP Brand Building & Messaging Experience at https://www.betsyjordyn.com/servicesConnect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsy-jordyn/ Related Podcast Episodes: How to Shape Thinking and Influence Executives with Retired Walt Disney World Parks President, Meg Crofton (Ep81) Why CEO's Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex (Ep64) The Disney Approach to Organizational Consulting with Harold Hill and Luis Marrero (Ep56) Front-Line to C-Suite | inside the Heart and Mind of Former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (Ep40)
In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and TV shows I watched and enjoyed in winter 2023. TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Brief Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 181 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is December, the 22nd, 2023 and today we're going to talk about the movies I saw in Winter 2023. Careful listeners might notice that I am recording this on December 22nd, which is actually only a day after I recorded Episode 180, which I recorded yesterday. The reason for that is it is the last Friday before Christmas and New Year's today, and I think I'm going to take most of the days between now and New Year's off and spend time with family and hopefully do other fun things. So this episode I was just recording a couple episodes in advance and I believe this episode is going to go out on January 1st, 2024. So if you're listening to this, I hope you have a Happy New Year and however things went for you in 2023, whether good or bad, I hope they are better in 2024. Just a quick update on my current writing projects, since I am recording this episode the day after I recorded Episode 180, not much has changed. I am 40,000 words into Shield of Storms and I hope to have that out in January, which would be later this month (if you are listening to this in January). I am 51,000 words into Sevenfold Sword Online: Leveling and I'm hoping to have that in February. I am 4,000 words into Half-Elven Thief and I'm not sure when that's going to come out. One additional bit of news since yesterday, it looks very likely we will have an audiobook of Sevenfold Sword Online: Creation sometime in January, if everything goes well. So watch and listen for additional news on that. Since I don't really have any other news since I recorded last week's episode yesterday, let's get into our main topic, which is the movies and TV shows I watched in Winter 2023. 00:01:54 Main Topic: Winter 2023 Movie and TV Reviews As always, I will discuss them in the order that I like them from least liked to most liked and as always remember my opinions about this are subjective. I am not a filmmaker. My opinions are often very, very idiosyncratic and just what I happen to think of a particular piece of work. First up is The Crown Season 6, which came out in 2023. The performances were superb, the actors were excellent, the set design and cinematography was excellent. Everyone involved in the show was at the top of their field and did an amazing job. And I still just didn't like this because it felt a bit ghoulish. For one thing, as The Crown has gone on, it's become less historical and more of a messy soap opera with an increasingly casual relationship with what really happened in the events it describes. For another thing, as I mentioned, I found the show's fixation on Princess Diana's death to be rather ghoulish. I am old enough to remember her death in 1997, and even then when I was much younger and stupider, I thought the American media's obsession with her death was weird and disturbing, especially since the media fixation on her was the direct contributing cause to her death. If the media hadn't been willing to pay vast sums for photographs of her, the paparazzi wouldn't have chased her and history would be different. A while back I knew a history professor who said that history only starts between 20 to 30 years ago and anything that happened within the last 20 to 30 years wasn't history yet, it was still journalism. I think that is part of what bothers me about Season Six of The Crown. Most of the people involved in the story are still alive. Writing historical fiction about people who have died, who have died is one thing, especially if they've been dead for centuries or even millennia. Only God may judge of the dead, so what those of us among the living think about them is quite irrelevant. But making up fiction about people who are still alive, even if they are major public figures who have unquestionably made some bad decisions, somehow seems libelous, especially since there have been so many articles in both the UK and the US press detailing all the things that Season Six of The Crown got wrong with the historical record. So to sum up, the show is extremely well done, but I cannot help but feel that it's like excellent work done in a bad cause. Overall Grade: D. Next up is Shazam: Fury of the Gods, which came out in 2023. The first Shazam movie was actually pretty good, definitely in B or B Plus territory. The sequel, alas, was quite a bit weaker. It reminded me of watching a really cheesy sword and sorcery movie from the 1980s: fun to watch mostly, but quite dumb. Following up from the first movie, Billy Batson and his foster siblings are now part of the Shazam superhero family and are handling their powers about as well as you would expect inexperienced teenagers to handle phenomenal cosmic powers, except it turns out that the wizard who gave Billy and his family their powers actually stole those powers from the Greek Titan Atlas and Atlas's daughters are ticked off about this and want those powers back. Since this is a superhero movie, let's just say they're not going to settle this dispute in probate court. The product placement for the Skittles candy in this movie was just over the top. In fact, an entire major plot point hinges on a teenage girl's love of Skittles. One hopes that Mars Incorporated, owner of the Skittles brand, really coughed up for that. Helen Mirren chews a lot of scenery as the chief daughter of Atlas, though she does have a very funny bit with a dictated letter. This isn't her first time in an over-the-top fantasy movie. She played Morgana in Excalibur back in the 80s, though her costume this time covers quite a bit more than Morgana's various outfits did. The movie also leans way too heavily into the rest of the DC movie universe. I'd say it's enjoyable to shut off your brain and watch all the sparkly fireworks and the scenery chewing, but it's not very good. Overall Grade: D+. Next up is Clue, which came out in 1985. Big swing and a miss, but definitely a miss nonetheless. I tried to watch this about ten years ago, but the version I watched then didn't have any captions and all the characters talked too fast for me to understand. But I have a much better TV than I did ten years ago and the caption situation has improved, so I gave it another go. This is a dark comedy version of the popular board game Clue. All the classic Clue characters, Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, and so forth are summoned to Mr. Boddy's mansion during a dark and stormy night. Mr. Boddy gloats says he has been blackmailing all of them, distributes the classic Clue weapons of the pipe, the knife, the wrench and so forth, and then promptly turns off the lights. When the lights come back on. Mr. Boddy has been murdered. Mr. Boddy, to be blunt about it, doesn't seem to have been all that bright a bulb. Anyway, madcap hijinks ensue as the guests try to figure out who the killer was. Three alternate endings are included with the movie, which have a different killer in each one. There were some very funny bits in the movie, but overall it really didn't work and it had some oddly heavy-handed commentary about the Red Scare. Tim Curry was pretty great in it though. Fun fact: he did an excellent turn as Darth Sidious in what was then the final episodes of The Clone Wars animated series, and he also played Arl Howe, one of the chief villains in Dragon Age: Origins, which was one of the last video games I had time to play through all the way before I spent the next fourteen years writing like 147 novels. A remake of Clue has been in production hell for like the last ten years. You just know that Hasbro wants to include Clue in their cinematic universe where Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlett team up with Optimus Prime and GI Joe to fight Megatron and the Monopoly guy or something. Overall grade: C Minus. Next up is Murder Mystery, which came out in 2019. This was unquestionably a dumb movie, but it was a fun, dumb movie. Like it's a C Minus student, but it's a sort of C Minus student who everyone likes, throws great parties, and goes on to have a very successful career as a regional sales manager. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston play Nick Spitz and Audrey Spitz, a New York City cop and a hairdresser. Nick has failed the detective exam multiple times and has gotten stuck in a rut, and Audrey really wants to go to Europe so Nick takes her to Europe and they promptly blunder into a ‘40s screwball style comedy about the murder of a wealthy European oligarch and his squabbling heirs. A lot of the comedy comes from the good-natured, but boorish Spitzes contrasted with the sophisticated, wealthy Europeans who promptly decided that Nick and Audrey would make the perfect scapegoats to take the fall for the oligarch's murder. Wacky hijinks follow. I do have to respect how Adam Sandler uses his movie productions as an excuse to travel to exotic locations with his friends. Overall grade: C Minus. Next up is the sequel to Murder Mystery, the aptly named Murder Mystery 2, which came out in 2023. It's the sequel to the first Murder Mystery and pretty much everything I said about the first one still applies-dumb, but fun. Overall grade: C Minus. Next up is Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny from 2023 and ah, I was very ambivalent about this movie. To be fair, it was better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It had some stuff that was really good and some stuff that just annoyed me. The opening sequence with the train during World War II was great- classic Indiana Jones stuff. The Nazis try to time travel to change World War II is a well-established trope of science fiction, but the twist this time is the villain thinks he understands how the time travel device works, but it turns out that he actually doesn't was pretty good. The car chases were excellent as well, both in New York and Tangiers. That said, the legacy protagonist now is an old loser getting lectured by a more competent younger woman story trope was in full force, and it's a really annoying story trope. Disney seems to just adore the story trope: the Star Wars sequels, Secret Invasion, and now Dial of Destiny, and I suspect a majority of audiences agree with me and don't like it, which is probably one of the significant reasons the Disney Corporation lost a metric gigaton of money this year. Top Gun Maverick was a much better example of bringing back a legacy protagonist. Indy also has this oddly out of character speech where he says he doesn't believe in magic, which is rich considering he has literally seen The Ark of the Covenant melt Nazis, the power of The Holy Grail turn another Nazi to dust, and space aliens. So I would say that Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny was half a good movie and half a weak one. Overall grade: B Minus. Next up is the Barbie movie, which came out in 2023. I saw Oppenheimer in the theater in August after I finished working on Dragonskull: Crown of the Gods and a couple months ago I did finally get around to seeing Barbie. Greta Gerwig is clearly a genius because she figured out how to take the existential anxiety of the modern American woman and convert it into $1.44 billion at the box office. If we could work out how to apply the same principles to generating electricity, we would have limitless clean energy, flying cars, and World Peace. Though I suppose the phrase modern American woman really is a facile generalization. Anyway, I really wasn't in the target demographic for this movie. That said, it is quite funny. It's a fantasy comedy that's a bit surrealistic in places. The set design is superb and done with very little computer effects. Apparently so much pink paint was used that it actually caused a nationwide shortage. As many reviews said, Ryan Gosling almost stole the movie as Ken, which was amusing on a meta level because he's played so many grim action heroes. In the third act, the movie really does beat the viewer over the head with the message. But what else can you expect from a Barbie movie in 2023? The funniest line was “How can she call me a fascist? I don't control the railways or the flow of commerce.” The joke about Proust Barbie not selling was pretty funny as well. Maybe if the Barbienheimer meme continues, in the sequel, Proust Barbie can fall in love with Oppenheimer Ken, and they have grim conversations about existentialism and science. Overall grade: B Plus. Next up is Muppet Treasure Island, which came out in 1996. This is a loose-ish adaptation of the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, with many Muppets filling the roles of the characters from the book and Tim Curry playing Long John Silver. Like in the book, young Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map leading to the buried treasure of a ruthless pirate captain and sets out on an adventure to find it. However, many of the dead captain's former associates likewise want the treasure, so Hawkins and his allies must outwit their foes. This wasn't quite as good as Muppet Christmas Carol, but still quite enjoyable and funny. Overall Grade: A Minus. Now for the runner up of the best thing I saw in winter 2023 and that will be Loki Seasons One and Two, which came out in 2021 and 2023. I liked the first season of Loki, which came out back in 2021, but it was very obviously the first half of the story so I didn't write anything about it. However, I've seen the second season and the completed Loki show is very good. As I've written before, I don't really like multiverse or time travel stories because the stakes are either too vast or utterly meaningless. Time travel stories are a lot like homemade lasagna: if it's not excellent and not prepared by someone who knows exactly what they're doing, you're going to regret eating it. However, Loki leads hard enough into the concept, and the stakes that the show actually works. Like, I think the key question that every time travel story needs to answer at some point is why the time traveler doesn't just go back in time over and over again until she he or she fixes the problem, like remoting a saved game until you finally figure out how to beat the final boss. If you can time loop indefinitely, why not do it infinitely until you get the perfect outcome? Loki actually comes up with good answer to that question that isn't “because the plot requires it.” Anyway, the show starts with the version of Loki who escaped with Tesseract from Avengers Endgame getting captured by the Time Variance Authority. The TVA is basically the time cops. They guard the flow of The Sacred Timeline and prevent any alternative timelines and realities branching off from the main one. The events that make it out of The Sacred Timeline are determined by the Timekeepers, three mysterious figures who rule the TVA from the shadows. Loki manages to ingratiate himself to his captors, soon realizes that the TVA isn't all what it appears or claims to be, and discovers that big trouble is coming. The show had some good character development for Loki and managed to wrestle with what is in fact some profound philosophical questions. Is there a choice between determinism and free will? Must we choose between either brutal tyrannical order or destructive chaos, or is there another way? On a more prosaic level, some reviews said that the finale of Loki bound Marvel to using Kang The Conqueror as their next major villain, which would be a potential problem due to the actor's ongoing self-inflicted legal troubles. That said, I don't think that assessment is correct. In my opinion, the ending resolves the story while leaving things wide open for whatever Marvel wants to do (or can afford to do, given Disney's financial woes) next. Overall, Loki was the best non-Spiderman thing Marvel has done since Endgame. It also achieved one of the rarest feats of all in superhero movies: an emotionally satisfying ending to both the story and a long character arc. Overall Grade: A. Finally, the best thing I saw in Winter 2023 was The Shop Around the Corner, which came out in 1940. It is a romantic comedy starring Jimmy Stewart as Mr. Kravlik and Margaret Sullivan as Miss Novak. Mr. Kravlik is the top salesman at Matusek's, a store owned by the somewhat erratic Mr. Matusek, who kind of reminded me of a marginally brighter Michael Scott. One day Miss Novak comes into the shop and fast talks her way into a job as a sales clerk. Both she and Mr. Kravlik immediately take a dislike to each other, which is ironic because Mr. Kravlik and Miss Novak have been unwittingly corresponding with each other anonymously and falling in love over the last few months, which was something people used to do in the pre-Internet age before Tinder and Match.com. However, big trouble is on the horizon because one of the sales clerks is having an affair with Mr. Matusek's wife and Mr. Matuszek mistakenly blames Mr. Kravlik, who is in fact the most loyal of his employees and the only one brave enough to disagree with him. The movie was both very funny and had a real degree of tension with dramatic stakes. It's a cross between You've Got Mail (which was partially inspired by this movie) and the UK version of The Office. It's a very tight movie, not a single line of dialogue or shot was wasted and the layout of the shots was nearly perfect. In the modern mind, we tend to think of black and white movies as being sanitized and saccharine, but that overlooks that the 1950s and the 1940s were in fact very different periods in American history. Movies from the ‘40s really do have this hard, sometimes cynical, edge to them, without indulging in pointless nudity, graphic violence, or nihilism the way that modern movies often do. Like at one point in the movie, Mr. Matusek tries to shoot himself in despair, only for a teenage boy to stop him. That's dark stuff for romantic comedy. Of course the teenage boy is hardly traumatized by the experience. He definitely leverages the event to get himself promoted from delivery boy to sales clerk. I enjoyed this movie thoroughly. I do recommend you watch it with captions if possible, since sound technology has come a long way since 1940. Overall Grade: A+. So those were the movies that I saw and enjoyed in Winter 2023 and later this year, I will do a roundup of stuff I saw in Winter 2024. So that is it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. And once more, have a Happy New Year! Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.
In this episode of The Most Days Show, we speak with Dr. André Martin on the quest for work that aligns with your individual needs. Dr. Martin, an accomplished organizational psychologist, has held leadership roles at companies such as Mars Incorporated, Nike, Google, and Target. He is also the author of Wrong Fit, Right Fit – Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever. Dr. Martin shares invaluable insights into effective methods for assessing potential employers during your job search, the significance of self-reflection in discovering the ideal career fit, and the broader implications of 'right fit' on work-life balance and overall well-being. If you're currently in the process of seeking new employment opportunities or contemplating a change in the coming year, this episode serves as a foundational resource to shape your approach. Host: Brent Franson, Founder & CEO, Most Days Guest: Dr. André Martin Music: Patrick Lee Producer: Patrick Godino
We're thrilled to be joined by André Martin, PhD, organizational psychologist, and Chief Talent Officer with an impressive track record at consumer giants like Target, Nike, Google, Mars Incorporated, and Disney.In our conversation, André uncovers the startling $7.8 trillion in lost workplace productivity and explains why he believes we need a new vision for a 'great place to work' that focuses on fit over traditional cultural norms. He shares the importance of self-reflection and how to recognize different career paths based on Company, Craft, and Cause.Why You Can't Miss This: There's something in here for job seekers & career builders, leaders looking to hire and build a team, and those tasked to develop corporate culture relating to talent acquisition and development.01:14 Introduction and Focus of Work02:10 Understanding Disengagement in the Workplace03:43 Exploring the Concept of 'Fit' in the Workplace06:28 The Importance of Self-Reflection in Job Seeking11:17 Overcoming Confirmation Bias in Job Seeking18:27 Understanding Different Career Paths: Company, Craft, Cause21:31 The Impact of Company Transformation on Employee Fit22:29 Re-evaluating Recruitment and Onboarding23:09 The Cost of Mismatched Expectations23:57 Redefining Job Descriptions25:43 The Impact of Job Hopping26:02 Companies Doing it Right27:04 The Need for Re-recruiting27:32 The Role of Leaders in Employee Engagement29:00 The Future of Career Paths29:38 The Cost of Job Hopping Revisited30:45 Rethinking Job Search and Recruitment35:18 Advice for Job Seekers38:12 Where to Find More ResourcesTwo examples of more realistic job previews:Careers at NOBL37 SignalsEpisode ResourcesVisual GuideYouTubeTo learn more about André and his work:Monday Matters newsletterwww.wrongfitrightfit.comThe Book: Wrong Fit, Right Fit: Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever"Company, Craft, or Cause Excursion" From the book. Here is the linkDialogue Article (Duke Corporate Education Publication) titled "Right Fit, Wrong Fit". Here is the linkProducer: Podrick Sonicson To learn more about New Rules for Work:WebsiteLabs NewsletterEvent: 2024 Intent to Impact in Austin, TX
On s'y est toutes et tous attaché, que ce soit pour leur goût ou leurs personnages drôles qu'on voit dans les publicités avant la séance de ciné : les M&M's. Mais nos mascottes préférées, en 2022, ont disparu. Enquête sur cette étrange affaire. L'américain Franck Mars crée la société de chocolaterie et confiserie Mars Incorporated en 1911. Dans les années 30, son fils, Forrest Mars, alors en études à l'étranger, côtoie des soldats qui exercent pendant la guerre civile espagnole. Tous ont à la main des petites boules de chocolat enrobées de sucre, en guise d'en-cas... D'où viennent les M&M's ? Et d'où viennent les mascottes qu'on connaît tous ? Sont-elles disparues à tout jamais ? Écoutez la suite de cet épisode de "Maintenant, vous savez - Culture". Un podcast Bababam Originals, écrit et réalisé par Carole Beaudouin. A écouter aussi : Qu'est-ce que la nuit américaine au cinéma ? Comment la Vénus de Milo est-elle devenue une icône de beauté ? Quels sont ces films avec des scènes de sexe non simulées ? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special episode of How I Hire, Roy is sitting down with Noto Group's team of executive search consultants. He's joined by Sara Spirko, Bridget Hope, Tami Bumiller, and Lena Knofler to dig into essential leadership, workforce, and hiring trends that they're seeing for 2023 and beyond, along with the best ways to navigate them successfully for candidates and companies alike.Managing Director Sara Spirko began her career in recruiting with large consumer products companies. She then transitioned into marketing and brand activities before moving into project management for supply chain and global HR functions. She worked with companies like Gibson Guitar Corporation, Mars Incorporated, CSL Behring, and Godiva Chocolatier before moving back to Portland, joining Noto Group in 2019, and reentering the world of talent recruitment.Executive Recruiter Bridget Hope has over 20 years of experience in leadership, merchandising, and category management in the outdoor sporting goods, athletic fitness, and lifestyle industries. She got her start at Banana Republic as a project manager before relocating to Nike to work in category management. She went on to work in merchandising, licensing, and consulting for brands like Eagle Creek, Puma, and Skull Candy before reconnecting with Roy and joining Noto Group in 2022. Principal Search Consultant Tami Bumiller has 20 years of experience in hospitality operations, retail human resources, and agency recruiting. The first 10 years of her career were spent in restaurant operations for a variety of independent brands across the country, after which she transitioned into retail, working at Eddie Bauer and eventually serving as their Senior VP of HR. After working with Roy to build out Eddie Bauer's leadership, Tami joined the team at Noto Group in 2019. Principal Search Consultant Lena Knofler started her career doing accounting and tax work at a family-owned aviation engineering investment company. After coaching sports teams in the area, she was inspired to shift gears towards talent development for a small local agency in Portland, in addition to doing in-house recruitment work for Providence Healthcare. Her career journey led her to Noto Group, where she has been a Search Consultant since 2019. Highlights from our conversation include:What it's like to be an executive recruiter (5:54)What today's candidates want and need (9:06)Key talent strategy trends for 2023 (13:38)Leadership qualities executives should have in order to stand out (19:30)Factors that will make the difference between success and failure in hiring this year (24:59)Developments in executive compensation (29:22)What the team is excited about moving forward (31:07)Get your tickets for MO Summit 2023: April 24th-26th in Austin, Texas!Tickets are available at mo-summit.com - use code NOTO for a discount.Visit HowIHire.com for transcripts and more on this episode.Follow Roy Notowitz and Noto Group Executive Search on LinkedIn for updates and featured career opportunities.Subscribe to How I Hire:AppleSpotifyAmazonGoogle
For this episode of the eCom Logistics Podcast, we welcome Sandra MacQuillan, Chief Supply Chain Officer of Mondelēz International. Today, she shares her experience in supply chain leadership and provides meaningful insights to excel in this field.She talks about how it was leading Mondelēz at the beginning and during the pandemic and the regional differences between Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America when it came to innovation in supply chain efforts.Sandra also shares advice on building teams for maximum growth and how to go about as a new leader in supply chain. ABOUT SANDRASandra MacQuillan is Chief Supply Chain Officer for Mondelēz International, a global company leading the future of snacking with 2019 net revenues of approximately $28.7 billion. In this role, Sandra leads all aspects of the organization's global supply chain including Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, Sustainability, and Safety. Sandra is passionate about the role the supply chain plays in leveraging deep understanding and partnership to drive value to the business.Sandra joined the company in June 2019 from Kimberly-Clark where she was their first-ever Supply Chain Officer. She built their Supply Chain and Supply Chain Leadership team and under her leadership, this work resulted in best-in-class performance in cost-savings and step-changes in cash, customer service, quality, safety, and sustainability.Before her time at Kimberly-Clark, Sandra worked at Mars Incorporated for more than 20 years, holding supply chain positions of increasing responsibility worldwide. In her last role at Mars, she served as Global Vice President of Supply Chain for its $15Bn Global Petcare business.Sandra has extensive international experience and has lived and worked in North America, Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She is on the Board for Trimble, serves on the SCM World's Executive Advisory Board, and is a Trustee for Atlanta International School, Atlanta, Georgia. Sandra is a chartered mechanical engineer and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 2011. She was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her work in encouraging young students, particularly women, into engineering. HIGHLIGHTS02:31 How Sandra led as the first-ever Chief Supply Chain Officer of Kimberly-Clark09:33 Must-have attributes when building a team for supply chain13:29 The top priorities leading Mondelēz at the start of the pandemic23:26 On moving to digital27:54 Comparing regional innovation and sustainability36:51 What we can expect with automation in the CPG QUOTES04:28 Sandra's advice for future supply chain leadership: "Don't lose sight of what supply chain is, is what I would say at the start. There are key principles that we have in supply chain around who we are and what we are. They apply anywhere. So if anybody tells you, you have to rethink everything, that's not true. There's core, basic fundamentals, service quality, safety, and all these kinds of things.29:13 We should connect together where we can - Sandra: "If they've not had recognition, they feel the need to be seen, so it has to be theirs. And as opposed to when we get to, hopefully at some point when business and the corporate world gets to the place where we're gonna share with each other for the better of everything. It sounds a bit naive, but I do believe that's what we should be doing corporately."Find out more about Sandra in the links below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandramacquillan/
With us on the podcast is Dr. Susan Blount, Vice President of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs for Mars Incorporated. Today we're talking about food integrity, food fraud and adulteration and what Dr. Blount and her team are doing to ensure consumers throughout the world have safer foods. We kick things off talking about what food integrity is – and isn't and what companies like Mars are doing to ensure a safe food system. We take a deeper dive into regulations across the world when it comes to the misrepresentation of food and how that plays into the global supply chain. We also address issues pertaining to consumer trust and how Mars is working with its partners for more consistent harmonization as well as the technologies that are available to detect fraudulent foods. We cap things off talking about the Mars Global Food Safety Center and as well as whether better detection methods or more regulations are more important when it comes to food fraud. Enjoy the episode. Read the transcript of this episode on the Food Processing website
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Do you believe that there are instances where it is not always right to be right? In this episode of Incorporating Superpowers, host Justin Recla welcomes Hamish Thomson. Hamish is a New Zealander by birth and a seasoned global leadership executive. In a 30-year career, he has been a successful CEO/Regional President and Global Brand head for Mars Incorporated and a senior marketing and sales lead for Reebok International and a fresh-faced account executive in the London advertising scene. Tune in as they discuss the importance of why it's not always right to be right.
Do you believe that there are instances where it is not always right to be right? In this episode of Incorporating Superpowers, host Justin Recla welcomes Hamish Thomson. Hamish is a New Zealander by birth and a seasoned global leadership executive. In a 30-year career, he has been a successful CEO/Regional President and Global Brand head for Mars Incorporated and a senior marketing and sales lead for Reebok International and a fresh-faced account executive in the London advertising scene. Tune in as they discuss the importance of why it's not always right to be right.
Today brother Andrew remembers Whoopi Goldberg and praises the work of the Camden City New Jersey School District and Mars Incorporated for making M&M’s advertising more inclusive.
On this episode, Jay Jakub teaches how the biblical model of jubilee can be used as a basis for practicing capitalism more effectively. Dr. Jay Jakub is the Chief Advocacy Officer for the Economics of Mutuality Movement, which originated at Mars Incorporated. (A $40 billion company with 130k employees around the world, Mars is the maker of M&Ms, Snickers, and other iconic brands.) Jay and colleague Bruno Roches collaborated on the book Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World, a rigorous and practical case study for the "Economics of Mutuality." In addition, this growing movement is now taught globally through Oxford University's Saïd Business School and elsewhere. His doctorate is in Modern History from Oxford University (St. John's College), and he has an M.A. in International Relations & Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster (UK). www.EOM.org Theology of Business is the show for marketplace Christians seeking to explore and apply God's will for business. If you want to learn more about how to do business for the glory of God and shape culture through discipling the business world, this show is for you. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.TheologyofBusiness.com
On this episode, Jay Jakub teaches how the biblical model of jubilee can be used as a basis for practicing capitalism more effectively. Dr. Jay Jakub is the Chief Advocacy Officer for the Economics of Mutuality Movement, which originated at Mars Incorporated. (A $40 billion company with 130k employees around the world, Mars is the maker of M&Ms, Snickers, and other iconic brands.) Jay and colleague Bruno Roches collaborated on the book Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World, a rigorous and practical case study for the “Economics of Mutuality.” In addition, this growing movement is now taught globally through Oxford University's Saïd Business School and elsewhere. His doctorate is in Modern History from Oxford University (St. John's College), and he has an M.A. in International Relations & Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster (UK). www.EOM.org Theology of Business is the show for marketplace Christians seeking to explore and apply God's will for business. If you want to learn more about how to do business for the glory of God and shape culture through discipling the business world, this show is for you. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.TheologyofBusiness.com
On this episode, Jay Jakub teaches how the biblical model of jubilee can be used as a basis for practicing capitalism more effectively. Dr. Jay Jakub is the Chief Advocacy Officer for the Economics of Mutuality Movement, which originated at Mars Incorporated. (A $40 billion company with 130k employees around the world, Mars is the maker of M&Ms, Snickers, and other iconic brands.) Jay and colleague Bruno Roches collaborated on the book Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World, a rigorous and practical case study for the "Economics of Mutuality." In addition, this growing movement is now taught globally through Oxford University's Saïd Business School and elsewhere. His doctorate is in Modern History from Oxford University (St. John's College), and he has an M.A. in International Relations & Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster (UK). www.EOM.org Theology of Business is the show for marketplace Christians seeking to explore and apply God's will for business. If you want to learn more about how to do business for the glory of God and shape culture through discipling the business world, this show is for you. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.TheologyofBusiness.com
The definition of what service means in a customer-centric supply chain has changed over the years. Today, servicing customers means more than delivering OTIF and it's certainly less about capacity utilization. Now it's all about finding customer pain points across your entire value chain and being able to find out where your next customers are, and how you can serve them better and quicker than your competitors. If Covid has taught us anything, it's how important resilience is. It's no wonder the businesses who have a strong focus on customer-centricity remain competitive. In this episode, Paulo de Castro, Global CFO of Mars Petcare, and Pierre Mille, Former Director of Plan & Deliver at FrieslandCampina joins Maria Villablanca to discuss how the definition of service has changed and how finance and supply chain can work together to define new metrics to measure performance. About The Speakers Paulo de Castro: Paulo de Castro's career has seen him work for some of the world's largest companies in Finance positions. From 2000 to 2003, Paulo was the CFO of the Ice Cream and Frozen Foods division at Unilever, a role he held for 3 years before becoming CFO, VP Supply Chain, IT and Customer Service in 2003, VP Finance - Controller Europe in 2007, and CFO of the Unilever Supply Chain Company in Switzerland in 2009. Paulo then joined GrandVision in 2012 as Group CFO until 2019, where he became the Global CFO of the Petcare division in Mars Incorporated. Pierre Mille: Pierre Mille has spent his career working in various supply chain operations roles in the FMCG, Food and Beverage, Dairy, and Fashion/Medical Retail industry, for some of the world's most well-known brands, including Unilever (1989 - 2012), Carlsberg Group (2012 - 2015), GrandVision (2015-2018), and more recently, FrieslandCampina (2018-2020). Pierre's latest career move saw him joining Bluecrux as a Consultant (2021-present). Pierre's specialisms include setting global customer-centric supply chain operations and operating business models, implementing advanced planning systems, and managing large-scale supply chain transformation projects for growth, EBITA, and cash generation.
You may know Mars Incorporated for the sweet and tasty treats you can find on store shelves – classic Twix candy bars, Juicy Fruit gum, and so much more. However, Mars is exploring much more than just candy and snack foods. Jean-Christophe Flatin, President of Innovation, Science, Technology, and Mars Edge at Mars, talks about "innovation myth-busting," the importance of connecting with consumers, and new patterns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
With more and more organizations under tremendous pressure to take climate action, sustainable procurement has become a critical imperative of futureproof supply chains. In this episode, we're joined by Luc Beerens, Director of Global Sustainable Sourcing for Mars, to discuss Mars' bold step towards scope-3 emission reduction. We find out more about how the Mars, McCormick, and PepsiCo Supplier LoCT coalition works, why it was formed, and why it's essential to look beyond your own four walls to drive the sustainability initiative forward. About The Speaker Luc Beerens is the Global Sustainable Sourcing Director for Mars Incorporated. During his career at Mars, he has worked across procurement, quality management, logistics, and sustainability. He joined Mars Inc. in 1993 following his graduation from Eindhoven University, where he completed his master's in Industrial Engineering & Management Science. Luc also serves on the SAI Platform Executive Committee.
Bird and LJ talk to Aileen Richards, who was the first women on the board of directors of Welsh Rugby Union.Here are the questions posed to Aileen:Growing up what were thoughts on a career - did any female role models influence you on your journey?Why rugby?What is the most memorable event in your career?How did you progress to the role of senior exec at Mars? What life experiences provided you with the skills to do this role? You've been a Welsh rugby fan for over 50 years do you think there are any lessons to learn from the men's game at community, club and International level? From your experience of working in Mars a global company. In terms of brand what do you think needs to happen for women's rugby to secure more financial backing and access mainstream media?What was it like being the first woman on the board of the WRU? How did it happen? Where do you feel your influence has created the greatest change in Welsh rugby? What would be your advice to any female with a passion for rugby, who wants to support and make rugby a game for everyone about how to get involved at a strategic level in the game? What qualities/skills would they need?You've just become chair of the new cricket team Welsh Fire. Can you tell us a bit more about this role and set up? What can rugby learn from other sports such a cricketWhat one tip you would give to a young person looking to succeed? What is your next big goal that you would like to achieve?Aileen Richards is a non-executive Director of WRU. She was a senior Executive with Mars Incorporated until 2015. As executive vice president of Mars, she was responsible for the Human Resources strategy for the company's 85,000 employees and she also led Mars Global Services (Mars IT, Mars Financial Services and Mars Associate Services). In her 30 years with Mars, she also held senior international roles in Procurement and Manufacturing and lived in Washington DC and Brussels. She is currently an independent non-executive director on several boards, including Mars Nederland, Jacob Douwe Egberts, Pret A Manger and Welsh National Opera. She was also the first woman on the board of directors of the Welsh Rugby Union and chairs the Board of the new Cricket Team Welsh Fire. She has been a Welsh rugby fan for over 50 years, has travelled to many World Cups. Married with two children, all of whom played rugby.
Within 4 months of her 2019 arrival inside BDSI’s CFO office, Terry Coelho had spearheaded a product acquisition and managed a successful equity raise—two finance milestones that would produce generous sales tailwinds for the specialty pharmaceutical firm. BDSI would experience 100% net sales growth in 2019, followed by 40% net sales growth in 2020. Such sales momentum recently led BDSI to issue a press release praising its “new commercial team” and at the same time announcing that Coelho’s CFO title would now include the designation “executive vice president.” For Coelho, a seasoned finance executive who spent more than a decade serving in a variety of senior positions inside Novartis and Sealed Air Corp., the call to leadership at BDSI afforded her a wide berth from which deliver results that are now arguably visible to all. Still, even this success chapter must compete for our attention when we hear about a promotion that she received from candy and pet food giant Mars Incorporated early in her career. At the time, when Coelho was in her early 30s she was asked by John Mars (currently chairman) to relocate to South America and build a plant to start up Mars’s confectionery business in Brazil. “When the plant concept was coming about, John Mars said to me, ‘You can do this job,’ and I kind of looked at him and thought to myself, ‘Why not?,’” says Coelho, who had first gotten her FP&A acumen noticed inside the corporate planning function of Mars’s McLean, Virginia, headquarters. Years later, as she prepared to return to the U.S., the Brazilian team presented her with a photo of the former cow pasture that the Mars plant was then occupying. After a number of expansions, the factory and Brazilian business operations under Coelho’s leadership had grown to provide jobs to 200 people. “I don’t think that most companies would have given someone with my experience—at that point in my career—that kind of an opportunity. It has really shaped whom I’ve become. I have a breadth of experience from having run an entire business, and when you build it, you know it even better,” explains Coelho, who, after returning to the U.S., would hold a number of strategic finance positions, including CFO of Mars Direct, a newly formed direct-to-consumer business unit that would establish itself as one of the company’s future growth engines. –Jack Sweeney
Andrea Perez, Latam P&O Business Partner for Supply and R&D para Mars – Lado BEn este lado hablamos con Andrea Perez sobre su visión de la formación corporativa, los retos a superar, las competencias clave sobre el presente y futuro, y las acciones para digitalizar la empresa. Andrea estudio psicología en la Universidad de los Andes, arrancó trabajando en temas de consultoría en Talento Humano en PriceWaterhouseCoopers, y luego de 8 años ingresó a Mars, empresa que en 1911 en Tacoma (Washington) inicia cuando Frank C. Mars elaboró los primeros chocolates Mars en su propia cocina estableciendo las raíces de la compañía. En la década de 1920, Forrest E. Mars, Sr. se unió a su padre en el negocio y juntos lanzaron la barrita MILKY WAY®. En 1932, Forrest, Sr. se trasladó a Inglaterra con el sueño de construir un negocio basado en el objetivo de “reciprocidad de beneficios” entre todas las partes involucradas – esta visión es la piedra angular de lo que hoy es el grupo Mars Incorporated. Con base en McLean, Virginia, Mars tiene ventas netas de más de $33 mil millones de dólares y seis segmentos comerciales: Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Alimentación humana, Bebidas y Symbioscience
Andrea Perez, Latam P&O Business Partner for Supply and R&D para Mars – Lado AConversamos sobre su decisión de estudiar psicología, así como los aprendizajes de trabajar en una consultora para luego entender en qué está hoy. Andrea estudio psicología en la Universidad de los Andes, arrancó trabajando en temas de consultoría en Talento Humano en PriceWaterhouseCoopers, y luego de 8 años ingresó a Mars, empresa que en 1911 en Tacoma (Washington) inicia cuando Frank C. Mars elaboró los primeros chocolates Mars en su propia cocina estableciendo las raíces de la compañía. En la década de 1920, Forrest E. Mars, Sr. se unió a su padre en el negocio y juntos lanzaron la barrita MILKY WAY®. En 1932, Forrest, Sr. se trasladó a Inglaterra con el sueño de construir un negocio basado en el objetivo de “reciprocidad de beneficios” entre todas las partes involucradas – esta visión es la piedra angular de lo que hoy es el grupo Mars Incorporated. Con base en McLean, Virginia, Mars tiene ventas netas de más de $33 mil millones de dólares y seis segmentos comerciales: Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Alimentación humana, Bebidas y Symbiosciencevansa es una empresa de formación corporativa en Latam www.vansa.co
The gang celebrates the end of the year by taking another break to play Fiasco, a crime/noir storytelling game by Bully Pit Games. Congratulations, your application to relocate to the Mars Incorporated Colony has been approved! Mars Incorporated is the premiere future forward, ever-expanding, corporate city state in the Milky Way Galaxy. We only employ experts whose work is on the cutting edge of future technologies. And we pride ourselves on always pushing against the outer limits of the possible, and we are excited to have you joining our team. When you arrive, a sophisticated group of artificial intelligence units and computationally intensive algorithms will assign you to the position best suited for your skills. Then you will enjoy the true splendor and standard of living that is only possible because of Mars Incorporated. Welcome to Mars Inc., where the future is now!™ “Mars Inc.” is a story of greed, chaos, and unlikely revolutionaries. Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
This year, we’re peeling back to curtain to give everyone a peak at how we build our holiday fiasco episode. Join us as Curt, James, Amanda, Aly, Brendan, and Antony build up the characters and start forming the main conflicts for our holiday episode, “Mars Incorporated”.
Uncle Ben's, eine Marke der Mars Incorporated, hat in Kollaboration mit Blippar, Transparency-One und SGS eine AR-App entwickelt, um die Rückverfolgbarkeit der Lieferkette zu verbessern. Kunden in Frankreich können per App herausfinden, woher der Reis kommt, indem sie die Uncle-Ben's-Verpackung scannen. Die Transparency-One-Plattform bildet hierbei die gesamte Lieferkette ab und visualisiert diese Daten. SGS sammelt und verifiziert die Lieferkettendaten, um die Genauigkeit zu gewährleisten. Neben Links zu anderen Produkten und Rezeptideen wird auch eine Infografik angezeigt, die Mars‘ Ansatz für eine nachhaltige Reisbeschaffung erläutert.Mehr zum Thema: https://bit.ly/3bhdYYpInnovationsberatung: https://www.conabo.de/Dolmetscher der digitalen Vision: https://alexander-bode.de/
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Uncle Ben's, eine Marke der Mars Incorporated, hat in Kollaboration mit Blippar, Transparency-One und SGS eine AR-App entwickelt, um die Rückverfolgbarkeit der Lieferkette zu verbessern. Kunden in Frankreich können per App herausfinden, woher der Reis kommt, indem sie die Uncle-Ben's-Verpackung scannen. Die Transparency-One-Plattform bildet hierbei die gesamte Lieferkette ab und visualisiert diese Daten. SGS sammelt und verifiziert die Lieferkettendaten, um die Genauigkeit zu gewährleisten. Neben Links zu anderen Produkten und Rezeptideen wird auch eine Infografik angezeigt, die Mars‘ Ansatz für eine nachhaltige Reisbeschaffung erläutert.Mehr zum Thema: https://bit.ly/3bhdYYpInnovationsberatung: https://www.conabo.de/Dolmetscher der digitalen Vision: https://alexander-bode.de/
Mars Incorporated—the company behind some of your favorite brands, from Snickers to Seeds of Change—is guided by a simple statement: We believe the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today.This purpose comes to life through the company’s Sustainable in a Generation Plan, which focuses on a healthy planet, thriving people, and nourishing wellbeing; through its four subsidiaries — Petcare, Mars Wrigley, Food, and Edge; and through many of its brands. To talk about Mars’ purpose, Purpose 360 welcomed Andy Pharoah, VP Corporate Affairs and Sustainability at Mars. Listen for Andy’s insights on:The interrelationship between the Mars Compass and Five Principles, and how they jointly guide decision-making at all levels of the organization.How Mars is putting purpose at the center of long-term business strategy and R&D to transform supply chains and operations to be more sustainable, while creating healthier products.Why and how Mars committed $1b+ in the Sustainable Generation Plan to put its “purpose into practice” and help billions of people around the world. Links & NotesAbout MarsMars CompassThe Five PrinciplesSustainable in a Generation PlanConnect with Andy Pharoah on LinkedInSustainable in a Generation Scorecard (2019)
New #TeesMe podcast episode alert with Angie Hancock of Experience Harlem Angie Hancock is the President and Founder of the award-winning marketing solutions and small business development agency Experience Harlem. Launched in 2006, Experience Harlem has been informing New Yorkers about uptown’s best sips, shops, sights, and more through the Essential Uptown Guide and website ExperienceHarlem.com. Angie grew Experience Harlem into one of the leading communication resources celebrating Harlem, NY and has received awards like the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce Women of Distinction, the Bradhurst Merchant Association’s Business of the Year, The Network Journal’s 40 Under Forty Achiever’s Award, and most recently she received an award and was honored by Harlem Fashion Week. Angie holds a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and a CPA. Angie is a business leader having worked with Fortune 500 corporations such as Sara Lee Corporation, Ann Taylor Incorporated and Mars Incorporated. Additionally, Angie has worked with national media giants including Essence and EBONY Magazines. What you will hear - #convosForeChange what gets women into the game - playing in the rain at @OTGClassic - A origin story, Experience Harlem - Launching “The Guide to Black Harlem” - QOTD: How can national brands connect with us? - SheaMoisture + Unilevel = a succesful brand story - Golf - is it the stalwart of whiteness? - Talking smack on the golf course - Golf bets vs donations - @PGA are you listening??? You need a Marketing Consultant, Hire Angie - For the love of Old courses like Wykagyl - Odyssey 2-ball putter (let's PAY HER for that name drop) What you need to know ************************** IG: @experienceHarlem Join the mailing list: www.ExperienceHarlem.com Guide to Black Harlem: http://experienceharlem.com/guide-to-black-harlem-2020-2/ Mentioned in this episode: @OTGClassic @ApolloTheater ************************** https://anchor.fm/TeesMe Listen on Apple, Spotify, Google #TeesMe #podcast #storiesNeedToBeTold #untoldStories #Marketing #ExperienceHarlem #BlackCulture #GuideToBlackHarlem #BlackBusiness #SupportBlackBusiness #golf #TeesMeLive #TeesMeTour #StayTuned #2020 #IN18 #womenGolf #BlackWomenGolf #BlackGolfersMatter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
“Supply Chain Front & Center: Sandra MacQuillan with Mondelez International” Supply Chain Now Episode 383 This episode of Supply Chain Now features Sandra MacQuillan. Sandra is Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer for Mondelēz International, a global company leading the future of snacking with 2019 net revenues of approximately $26 billion. In this role, Sandra leads all aspects of the organization’s global supply chain including Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, Sustainability, and Safety. Sandra is passionate about the role the supply chain plays in leveraging deep understanding and partnership to drive value to the business. Sandra joined the company in June 2019 from Kimberly-Clark where she was their first-ever Supply Chain Officer. She built their Supply Chain and Supply Chain Leadership team and under her leadership, this work resulted in best-in-class performance in cost-savings and step-changes in cash, customer service, quality, safety, and sustainability. Prior to her time at Kimberly-Clark, Sandra worked at Mars Incorporated for more than 20 years, holding supply chain positions of increasing responsibility around the world. In her last role at Mars, she served as Global Vice President of Supply Chain for its $15Bn Global Petcare business. Sandra has extensive international experience and has lived and worked in North America, Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She is on the Board for Trimble, serves on the SCM World’s Executive Advisory Board and is a Trustee for Atlanta International School, Atlanta, Georgia. Sandra is a chartered mechanical engineer and was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 2011. She was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her work in encouraging young students, particularly women, into engineering. Upcoming Events & Resources Mentioned in this Episode: Subscribe to Supply Chain Now: supplychainnowradio.com/subscribe/ Connect with Scott on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/scottwindonluton/ Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gswhite/ Connect with Sandra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandramacquillan/ SCN Ranked #1 Supply Chain Podcat via FeedSpot: tinyurl.com/rud8y9m SCNR to Broadcast Live at AME Atlanta 2020 Lean Summit: www.ame.org/ame-atlanta-2020-lean-summit SCNR on YouTube: tinyurl.com/scnr-youtube 2020 AIAG Supply Chain Summit: tinyurl.com/yx5asq35 Register for the Upcoming Webinar with RootStock CLoud ERP - "Post COVID-19: Back to Business as Usual Doesn't Mean ERP as Usual": https://tinyurl.com/ya9faoyr Register for the Virtual Supply Chain Summit with Alcott Global: https://tinyurl.com/ycgwab87 Stand Up & Sound Off: A Conversation About Race in Industry Webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7522896348121204752 Check Out News From Our Sponsors: U.S. Bank: www.usbpayment.com/transportation-solutions Capgemini: www.capgemini.com/us-en/ Vector Global Logistics: vectorgl.com/ Verusen: www.verusen.com/ ProPurchaser.com: tinyurl.com/y6l2kh7g This episode was hosted by Greg White and Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: www.supplychainnowradio.com/episode-383.
…talking with the Chief Agricultural Officer of Mars Incorporated about orphan crops – the next wave of food plants to come out of Africa augmented for nutrition to help tackle hunger and malnutrition. This episode was recorded during the 2019 Global Table Melbourne Australia, Seeds&Chips. Produced in partnership with the University of Adelaide, Ramona Dalton Communications and Basem3nt Enterprises.
Scientist & entrepreneur Howard-Yana Shapiro has worked with sustainable agriculture for over 50 years.As the chief agricultural officer at Mars Incorporated, he works to ensure that our food system is resilient in the face of climate change. In this episode, he introduces a new definition of food.About season 3:Who are taking action to fix our broken food system? From Trinidad and Tobago via Nigeria and Myanmar, to China and Australia, we meet the Faces of Food: 12 inspiring people driving action that is healthy for both people and the planet.Learn more at EATforum.orgSeason 3 post production by Shaw Media. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
How can you make your company the best at media?What is the roadmap and actions you need to take to transform the complex media operations of a major company?How do you inspire success and drive change within a giant global marketing organization like Mars Incorporated?These are just some of the amazing insights shared in this #MediaSnack Meets with Rob Rakowitz the Global Media Director of Mars, one of the world's largest advertisers. We get tips from Rob on:The role of the global media directorHow to prioritize your time to be most effectiveThe importance of having CMO who is interested in mediaHow to align support across a large company to drive changeFinding motivation for successful teamwork Rob also shares his huge passion for promoting 'Media Sustainability' to protect the long term health of the global advertising industry. Episode Links:Rob Rakowitz LinkedInRob Rakowitz TwitterThe Global Alliance for Responsible MediaTruth, Lies & Advertising by Jon SteelHooked by Nir EyalSpace Race by Jim TaylorBob Hoffman, aka The AdContrarian Scott Galloway 'The FOUR'Rob Norman Twitter
Today is what I would call a literal treat, that's because I got to talk to the Queen of Treats. Today, I got to speak with Orla Mitchell, who is the President of Gums and Mints at Mars Wrigley Confectionery, a subsidiary of Mars Incorporated. She leads the strategic development and delivery of some of the world's most beloved and delicious brands, like Extra, Orbit, Doublemint, 5 Gum, Juicy Fruit, and Eclipse, to Altoids and Lifesavers -- I mean basically every brand you ever heard of, it's kind of awesome. One of the things that I love about Orla is just how understated she is. She's done the most incredible work and she is humble about it. I think when you listen to her you're just going to be so inspired and ready to take on the world as a social lady. Take a listen!
SHOW NOTES Matthew is the Director of Communications for WhiteWave Foods, a leading consumer packaged food, and beverage company that manufactures, markets and sells branded plant-based foods and beverages, coffee creamers and beverages, premium dairy products, and organic produce. As the Director of Communications, Matthew oversees and is directly responsible for the company’s communications programs around crisis and issues management, financial communications, M&A/integration, employee & executive communications and corporate marketing and thought leadership. Prior to joining WhiteWave, Matthew was the General Manager of Olson PR, an award-winning marketing, and communications agency based out of Chicago, IL. At Olson, Matthew was General Manager of the company’s Western Division which included offices in San Francisco and Denver, and he managed communications campaigns for a wide variety of national and international Fortune 500 companies including SABMiller, AB InBev, Heineken, Carlsberg, Belize Tourism Board, Fitbit, Wrigley, and a variety of others. One of Matthew’s longest serving clients at Olson was a coalition of the world’s four largest global brewers and brewing industry associations that he helped collaborate on issues of shared importance including excise tax, commercial freedom, reputation and global stakeholder engagement. He also ran the company’s crisis and issues management practice including managing all crisis and issues for the Belize Tourism Board and Fitbit, and he created and executed holistic consumer and business-to-business marketing communications strategies for a wide variety of Olson clients including TiVo, Wrigley, and Cool Planet. Before joining Olson, Matthew worked at Weber Shandwick Worldwide where he led the issues and crisis management programs for the U.S. Dairy Industry and the U.S. Pork Industry and counseled a variety of major global companies through both large and small-scale crises, including Mars Incorporated, SC Johnson and Son, and Kraft Foods. Earlier in his career, Matthew spent five years working at various levels of state and federal government including the Wisconsin State Governor, The U.S. Department of Education, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and the White House. He graduated from George Washington University with B.S. in Political Science.
The BRAND New You Show - A Personal Branding and Digital Branding podcast
Taylor Nieman | TalentPoolMe | Recruiting Full show notes: HERE Today we welcome to the show Taylor Nieman the Co-founder and CEO of TalentPoolMe.com Talent pool me is a tech startup addressing the market gap for college recruiting and employer branding. While not yet fully launched the platform is already gaining the attention of Fortune 500 companies, such as Geico, Mars Incorporated, and Siemens. TalentPoolMe.com Taylor and I discuss the online platform TalentPoolMe.com and how it links together all aspects of early career recruiting from Universities, to talent, and employers. We also talk about employer branding, what it is and how it compares to the “traditional corporation”. Talentpoolme is not a job board. It will operate as a true talent pool for the employers and talent who sign up for the platform. Talent will be able to opt-in to an employer's talent pool as well as share their experiences with specific employers that will directly link back to the employer's profile. Employers on the other hand will get to watch the development of the talent throughout their college career via their internships, projects or other extracurricular activities. Taylor and her team at TalentPoolMe.com have created a win-win platform that will benefit both employers and talent for many years to come. The best way to get in touch with Taylor or to learn more about TalentPoolMe.com Email: taylor.nieman@talentpoolme.com Twitter: Taylor_Nieman web: http://talentpoolme.com
Harold Schmitz, Executive Director of the Mars Center for Cocoa Health Science, speaks on how scientific discovery and fundamental understanding in food, agriculture, and health sectors offer critical business opportunities at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Dean's Distinguished Speaker Event, October 22, 2013 Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 27712]
Harold Schmitz, Executive Director of the Mars Center for Cocoa Health Science, speaks on how scientific discovery and fundamental understanding in food, agriculture, and health sectors offer critical business opportunities at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Dean's Distinguished Speaker Event, October 22, 2013 Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 27712]
UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series (Video)
UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series (Audio)
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