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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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Putting People First: The Promise of Human Centered Capitalism

Let's Grow Leaders

and owner of ChemBlend of America, discusses human centered capital, and the importance of compassion, empathy, and resilience in leadership. She attributes her success to embracing every part of her past, a belief that reveals the essence of a leadership style that treats setbacks as stepping stones.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO

It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow. Melanie Kalmar was Dow’s CIO through all of that. “It

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

CIO

In contrast, US regulators must have a light touch with startups to maintain the country’s leadership position in innovation. These students will become the next machine learning experts, the AI algorithm engineers, and tomorrow’s company founders who can foster AI’s full potential and help drive American innovation and leadership.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.

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Rachel Carson’s Quiet and Powerful Leadership

Harvard Business Review

How a quiet introvert took on the chemical industry and made the world better.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO

CIO 100 award-winner Chris Nardecchia also wears multiple leadership hats in his role as senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest pure-play industrial automation and IoT company. We protect the warfighter. We save lives. We build time machines. We move humanity.

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