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5 Minutes to Increase Your Business Acumen
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Using DuPont Analysis to look at
DuPont
Why are
companies announcing profitability while undertaking cost cutting measures? Return On Equity
(ROE) is a widely used indicator of profitability and potential growth. A higher ROE generates a higher
value for its shareholders. DuPont expanded the ROE formula and created the DuPont Analysis. This month, we discuss how you can use the DuPont Analysis to better understand a company's financial report.
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ACS Webinars! ACS Webinars
is a weekly online event serving to connect ACS members and scientific
professionals with subject matter experts and global thought leaders in
chemical sciences, management, and business. The ACS Webinars
are divided into several series that addresses areas of interest to the
chemical and scientific community; these areas include career development,
professional growth, small & medium business, green chemistry, and
executive view. Each webinar is 60 minutes in length, comprising of a short presentation
followed by Q&A with the speaker. The live webinars are held on Thursdays
from 2-3pm ET and recordings of the past webinars are available online. |
ACS Webinars: Your Career Matters!
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 2-3pm ET.
"Love Food as well as
Chemistry? How to Find and Build a Career in the Food and/or Flavor Industries." Curious about
the smell of cookies baking? Or how researchers try to isolate vanilla flavor?
Know yourself, discover your passion, and weave it into your career!
Learn from our speaker how you might also be able to combine your passion in
food and chemistry into a career in the exciting world of food and flavor industries. Join
the conversation with speaker Carolyn Fisher, Regulatory Manager at McCormick.
She is also an author, instructor, and food flavors aficionado.
More information and registration...
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 ACS Webinars: Executive View
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2-3pm ET.
"Failure is
an Option: Learn How to Turn Failure into an Advantage." We are all familiar with
failures and yet failures carry a negative stigma to both individuals and
companies. Just as the phoenix can rise from the ashes, successful individuals
and companies are those who have successfully turned failures into advantages.
Join us to learn from our speaker Ben Yerxa, Executive Vice President &
Chief of R&D at Inspire Pharmaceuticals, the art of calculating risks and
taking charge of setbacks. You too can turn failures into success.
More information and registration...
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 ACS Webinars: Small & Medium Business
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 2-3pm ET.
"East Meets West: Global Opportunities
in Asia Pacific." Eager to tap into career and business opportunities in China? China is
rapidly transforming itself into a high tech powerhouse. An increasing number of
companies are setting up R&D centers in China. While China may offer
many career and business opportunities, one needs to learn about the political
and cultural landscape to successfully capitalize on the country's dynamic
growth. Learn from our speaker Ronghui Gao, Business
Development Director at BioBay China, how scientists and
businesses can capitalize on their Eastern and Western strengths.
More information and registration...
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Take the Mystery
out of the Job Search: Get support from the "ACS Career
Experts." Whether you are looking
for your first job or seeking to advance or transition in your career, ACS
Career resources give you a competitive advantage in your job search. ACS
Careers offers members like you invaluable resources from one-on-one career
consulting and mentoring to webinars to hone your job search skills to the
leading online job search resource for chemists and scientists at all levels of
experience and education. Please join us for the follow informative webinars
and Get a Jump on Your Career!
Register Now:
These events will be
held on Tuesday from 1:00-2:00 PM (Eastern).
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Learn how to better market yourself as a consultant! The upcoming Chemical Consultants Network Meeting on Wednesday,
February 10, 2010 will discuss the topic "Website Design for Consultants" with presentation by Steve Klein of Dakota-Diesel, Inc.
The presentation will cover areas including Logo Design, Name Concepting, Copywriting and Illustration and will
also touch on various related concepts with respect to Flash Animation, Web
Banner Design, E-mail Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and E-commerce
Design & Development.
For details see: www.chemconsultants.org
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Submit Abstracts
until February 26, 2010.
The 14th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering
Conference returns to downtown Washington, DC, June 21-23, 2010. Choose from over 20 different green chemistry
and engineering technical sessions. Housing and registration are also
open.
With the
theme "Innovation and Application" and with one of the renowned founders of
green chemistry, Dr. John Warner (President and CTO, Warner Babcock Institute
for Green Chemistry) as the chair, this conference is shaping up to be one you
don't want to miss! Confirmed keynote and guest speakers include the popular
environmentalist, entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken, as well as
US Congressman John Tierney (D-MA),
co-sponsor of the "Green Jobs Act."
For details see: www.gcande.org
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Take your negotiation skills to the next
level using the power of persuasion.
Women In Bio is
pleased to present a Webinar led by Catherine J. Morrison, JD. Catherine is an
Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins
Carey Business School and an Associate Faculty in the
Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health. Catherine will explore the key elements of persuasion and how
to use persuasion effectively in a negotiation. As framing is an important
element, attendees will learn how to construct a frame for your message to
enhance your persuasiveness at the negotiation table.
More information and registration...
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 Looking for some Chemical Bonds! In celebration of Valentine 2010, we received many stories from chemists on how they met their special someone through chemistry. Below are a few selected stories submitted.
From Rebekah Mitterko:
For the lab section, we were told to form teams for
a semester-long research project. Immediately, Steve and I pointed to each
other and said "let's be lab partners". Spending all that time researching gave
us a lot of 'bonding' time... In May 2009, he proposed and we will be married this October! Happy
Valentines Day Stephen! I love you with all my heart!
From Howard Peters:
... She caught that hair on fire with her Bunsen burner... I can't imagine my life without her...
From Jennifer Bachman:
... we bonded over nitrogen triiodide and the like at chemistry magic shows the SAACS chapter performed...
From Matt Tiza:
... As often is the case with different chemical species, we quickly found out that
together we produced a vigorous reaction...
From Wendell Wilkerson:
I was asked to tutor a nursing student in chemistry. That nursing student
became my wife 46 years ago. "Better living through chemistry".
Read more on other stories submitted...
Where to find chemistry? According to the ACS ChemCensus, the percent of married women chemists has increased from 58% in 1985 to 71% in 2005.
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 Maillard in your food!
The browning of meat that produces flavors and aromas comes from the reaction between carbohydrates (sugar) and proteins, which is called the Maillard reaction. Flavor chemists frequently employ such reactions to create artificial flavors.
Email us if you have interesting Chemistry at Home trivias that you would like to share with other readers.
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 "The synthetic chemist is more than a logician and strategist; he is an explorer
strongly influenced to speculate, to imagine, and even to create." by ???
Who is the famous chemist attributed to the quote above? Send us your correct answer and win a personalized autographed copy of the book Drug Truths: Dispelling the Myths About Pharma R & D by author John La Mattina.
Email us your answer by Feb 22, 2010 to be entered into the drawing. Answer and winner will be posted in next month's edition.
Congratulations to Jennifer DuBois of University of Notre Dame for her correct answer to last month's quote contest "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood" by Marie Sklowska Curie. Her name was randomly selected from all the correct entries received. She will receive a Meg-A-Mole doll. Thank you to all who entered the contest.
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Reach >100,000 scientific professionals. If you would like to submit an item for next month's
newsletter, email your item by 5:00 pm Eastern Time on the third Friday
of the month to imp@acs.org. Inclusion is subject to space and
editorial discretion.
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