What's in a name? What, in particular, is metals management' all about? I suspect that my ' colleagues assumed that I would have a good answer, given that the endowed Sandoz Chair I occupied from 1992 until my retirement in 2000 was entitled "Environment and Management", and at INSEAD I created a Center for Management of Environmental Resources (CMER). Metals are a subset of resources, et voila! However, in all honesty, management, as such, was never my core competence (to use another phrase popularized by business schools) ...
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What's in a name? What, in particular, is metals management' all about? I suspect that my ' colleagues assumed that I would have a good answer, given that the endowed Sandoz Chair I occupied from 1992 until my retirement in 2000 was entitled "Environment and Management", and at INSEAD I created a Center for Management of Environmental Resources (CMER). Metals are a subset of resources, et voila! However, in all honesty, management, as such, was never my core competence (to use another phrase popularized by business schools). Here comes the shocking secret. We used the word management in those titles because INSEAD is a business school where everything has to have an application to business. For my colleagues at INSEAD management is what we supposedly teach. Good management, they (we) think, distinguishes successful enterprises from unsuccessful ones. For some of our graduates, management is what they give professional advice to corporate clients about. For the rest of our graduates it is the umbrella word that describes their choice of career. The implication conveyed by our choice of words is that metals can be regarded as one category of environmental resources, and that resources - including environmental resources - can be managed, in somewhat the same way that a corporation can be managed. It is not even too far-fetched to suggest that long run sustainability might be a management problem.
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Add this copy of Panther (Junior Canadian Classic) to cart. $76.13, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Harbour Publishing.
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Lee-Elliott, Theyre. Very Good in Fair jacket. Signed by Author. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 191 pages. Red paper-covered boards. 4 7/8" w x 7 1/2"h. Tears on worn dust jacket. Previous owner's name blacked out on pastedown endpaper. The tale of a particular panther in Vancouver-biting, snarling, hunting, mating, killing, and dying. Illustrations by Theyre Lee-Elliott. Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown on the title page. Keywords: Panther, Cougar, Vancouver, Canada, Animal, Wild, Beast, Hunting, Mating, Killing, Nature.
In my memory the book was named Cougar, not Panther. Either I've forgotten, or it was titled separately for the United States.
It was 1970 and I was ten.
The story of this cougar's family was mesmerizing. You completely fall into their lives. Beautifully written. Haig-Brown did his homework and has a wonderfully compassionate imagination.
I have wanted to get hold of a copy of this book for DECADES. Although I was quite a book worm as a child, Panther is far and away my favorite. Good for all ages. I credit both this book and so many years living on the West Coast of Canada for my heightened love for the environment and this beautiful planet. You will not be disappointed. Thank goodness for Alibris! I can't wait to get my new copy in the mail.
