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Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse’s Mission Credit Suisse is a leading bank for private, corporate and institutional clients with a global reach. Credit Suisse advises clients in all aspects of finance, across the globe and around the clock. Credit Suisse’s mission as a company is to leverage the geographic diversity and new sources of talent to create a cost effective global business support center … Continue Reading

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VF Jeanswear

VF’s Mission Today we visited the Jeanswear coalition of VF, a company that is organized by coalitions, and made up of popular brands such as: Wrangler, Lee, Timberland, North Face, Vans, and is also licensed by the NFL and MLB. There are a total of five coalitions that make up the company, the other four being: outdoor and action sports, … Continue Reading

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Sandvik Coromant

Sandvik’s Mission Sandvik Coromant is a world leading, high tech engineering group that specializes in manufacturing advanced special alloys and ceramic materials.  Sandvik’s vision is to provide dedicated help to their costumers in industries worldwide trying to improve their productivity. As a company they value being open minded, having a team spirit, and fair play. Sandvik’s mission is to be … Continue Reading

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Elon University

Elon University’s Mission Elon University’s mission is based on its founders’ vision of an academic community which transforms and inspires its students minds, bodies, spirits, and encourages freedom of thought and liberty of conscience. Elon University lists four ways on their website for how they try to fulfill this vision: We nurture a rich intellectual community characterized by active student engagement … Continue Reading

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Honda Power Equipment

HPE’s Mission Honda Power Equipment (HPE) believes in having respect for the individual. As a company they do not believe in laying off their employees and over the past several decades they have maintained that. HPE also believes in making the most out of their time. This is displayed by their assembly line style of working and huge monitors throughout … Continue Reading

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SAS

SAS’s Mission SAS is a statistical analytics company that creates technology which can help corporations predict trends for the future to help companies invest, and prepare. SAS thrives thanks to a philosophy that values its employees above all else and believes that the better compensation they give them the better production they give back to the company. SAS’s mission is … Continue Reading

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Center for Creative Leadership

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is a top ranked, global provider of executive education whose mission is to unlock people’s leadership potential, thus accelerating them to their business goals. When touring the CCL today it was extremely interesting to me to see some of the things they incorporated on their campus that they believe ‘encourages’ leadership. They have designed their 19 acre campus to be an ideal location to … Continue Reading

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Proximity Hotel

Proximity hotel defines itself as a luxury hotel that just happens to be green. They are the first luxury hotel in North America to earn the LEED platinum award for their various environmentally friendly features. The hotel has solar thermal panels on their roof that heat all of the water for their showers. They make a conscience effort to buy … Continue Reading

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Glen Raven

Glen Raven is a textiles company that dyes fabrics for various companies in the automative industry, making sail fabrics, furniture and awnings, mining ventilation curtains, protective fire proof fabrics, and military gear. Glen Raven has been around for over a century, constantly adapting in order to stay ahead in the industry. Glen Raven has done this operating under the mission … Continue Reading

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LabCorp

The first visit that the Field Experience in Business class made was to see the headquarters of LabCorp, a lab that tests everything about the human body from, biopsies, to blood, urine, and stool samples. The mission of LabCorp is to analyze these samples that they receive from all over the world as quickly and with the best care and … Continue Reading

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