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Credit Suisse

What is Credit Suisse’s Mission? Credit Suisse’s was founded in 1856 with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Credit Suisse combines its expertise in Private Banking and Wealth Management, investment banking with Integrated banks offering clients advisory services and customized products. Credit Suisse provides companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients (5 million dollar net worth and above) worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland, with advisory services, … Continue Reading

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VF Corp

What is VF’s mission? VF is responsible for managing the industry’s most efficient and complex supply chain, which includes multiple geographies, product categories and distribution channels. VF’s mission is to grow by building  leading lifestyle brands exceed the expectations of their consumers, customers, shareholders and business partners. They provide retail partners with consistent solid execution and outstanding service and  continually find … Continue Reading

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Sandvik

What is Sandviks mission? Sandvik’s mission is to be the first choice for businesses and provide the best possible value for its main stakeholders: customers, shareholders and employees. Sandvik is a global industrial group with advanced products and equipment with world-leading positions in selected areas. As of 2014, the Group has around  49,000 employees and representation in 130 countries, with annual sales of … Continue Reading

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Elon University

Elon University has a mission to “embrace its founders’ vision of an academic community that transforms mind, body, and spirit and encourages freedom of thought and liberty of conscience.” Elon University was founded in 1889, as a private small liberal arts college, run by a board of trustees as a non-profit organization. As they expanded and gained endowment, Elon College became … Continue Reading

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Honda Power Equipment Factory (HPE)

Today, we visited the Honda Power Equipment factory. Honda’s main mission is to maintain a global viewpoint, we are dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality yet at a reasonable price for worldwide customer satisfaction. The facility that we visited has an annual production capacity of 1.5 million multi-purpose power equipment engines. This factory alone produces engines and products for … Continue Reading

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SAS Visit

Today our class visited SAS. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS helps transform your data into insights into your business. SAS software analytics can help you identify, “what’s working, fix what isn’t and discover new opportunities”.  SAS turns large amounts of data into knowledge that the customer can use. SAS is used at more than 65,000 … Continue Reading

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Center for Creative Leadership

Through Peter Drucker’s five questions: what is our mission, who is our customer, what does the customer value, what are our results, and what is our plan, we can learn the in and outs of the Center for Creative Leadership. During our visit to the CCL or The Center for Creative Leadership, we learned that this non-profit organization for four decades … Continue Reading

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Glen Raven

When being introduced to Glen Raven, we learned that Glen Raven’s mission is about enhancing life for global consumers with the world’s most innovative fabric-based, market-driven solutions. Glen Raven combines more than a 100 years of experience with modern technology to create the one of the most sought after textile company in the country. Glen Raven values: engaged associates, embracing … Continue Reading

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LabCorp

LabCorp main mission is “to offer the highest- quality laboratory testing and most compelling value to our customers.” LabCorp was first started after the merger of Roche Biomedical Laboratories and National Health Laboratories in 1995. LabCorp comes from a 100 years of experience giving them a trustworthy relationship to the medical testing industry. LabCorp provides scientific expertise in esoteric testing, … Continue Reading

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