I like to share the “buzz” about some of my favorite events during the year. Last month, TD Bank demonstrated their continued commitment to the environment by hosting The High Line Honey Harvest Festival, a fun day of activities, learning, and delicious tastings. Attendees had the opportunity to see walls of indigenous flowers, active beehives […]
Wisconsin’s Unique Approach to the Shrinking Labor Pool
The unemployment rate in the United States continues to decline and with that decrease qualified job candidates are more difficult to find. Thanks to a unique program in Wisconsin, employers there are now beginning to consider candidates whom they once may have turned away. In my home state of Wisconsin, where unemployment was as low […]
Drones Provide Healthcare Supplies to Rural Africa
I had largely dismissed drones as a much-hyped but impractical delivery option until I read this article in the Wall Street Journal on drones delivering medical supplies in rural Africa. Visiting Uganda about 10 years ago with my Johnson and Johnson colleague, Dr. Paul Stoffels, I was struck by the lack of basic medical supplies […]
Improving Rural Health Care
Allison Suttle of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote an article about how technology has been implemented to help improve rural health care. Suttle cites an integrated EMR platform that has been rolled out to 45 hospitals already as a major key in technologies help. The EMR platform is programmed to integrate uniform, evidence-based treatment […]
Sustainability Drives Business Success
Fortune 500 companies are increasingly turning to sustainability as a method of conducting their business. According to a new report, millennials are three times more likely to seek employment with a company that puts an emphasis on sustainability. There are many ways companies can impact the environment while maintaining revenue, and in many cases drive […]