Equally central to his role is Barry's collaborative work with all Mars business divisions to develop the company's corporate sourcing strategy, which seeks to create sustainable global supply networks for the company's key raw materials including: cocoa, palm oil, peanuts, dairy, coconut, and sugar.
The group called on the Child Protection Services division to develop a two-tiered response system, dispatching investigators to homes with potential for the most dangerous situations, and sending workers from social service agencies in other cases.
Hundreds of other Web sites have "zilla" in their names, most notably mozilla.org, home base for the organization set up by AOL's Netscape division to develop the open-source Mozilla Web browser.
Buried in the small type Monday was an announcement by Viacom's studio Paramount that it will create a division to develop programming for wireless devices (i.e., iPhone).
Its Section 1111 would require the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department's civil rights division to develop new policies on how and when to report use-of-force actions, investigate complaints and discipline agents, an effort to clarify and tighten regulations.
Among the film studios involved with Broadway, Disney stands out for having an ambitious, in-house division to develop shows for New York and theater touring markets; its other musicals include "Mary Poppins," "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin".
When AMC started a division to develop original Web series, it was reasonable to expect that the online shows would resemble the channel's ballyhooed television dramas — "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men," "The Walking Dead," "The Killing" — that traffic in pitch-black humor and grim horror and film noir.
Although AI has been through cycles of hype and disappointment before, big technology companies have recently been scrambling to hire experts in the field, in the hope of building machines that can learn even more sophisticated tasks.IBM said this month it would invest $1 billion in a new division to develop uses for Watson, its computer that understands human language.
He re-evaluated the product line, reorganized the company's structure and established a research division to develop prescription drugs that would comply with the safety requirements of the newly enacted Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, according to the essay about Mr. McNeil, which appeared in the book "Pharmaceutical Achievers," published by the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Toyota said today it will invest 7.5 billion JPY — $68 million — in taxi firm Nihon Kotsu's tech division to develop an on-demand service for passengers and drivers.
Vodafone recently created an Internet Services division to develop mobile Web services and lured Pieter Knook, a senior vice president in Microsoft's mobile communications unit, to run it.
