Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. CEOs of midsized companies I’ve come to know over the last 30 years share the same dream. But they are far more cautious, as they should be. And plenty do. The San Jose, Calif.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Most of its sales are in the developing world (including 40% in Africa) — where it sells its HIV drugs for about $350 per year per patient — yet it is as profitable as the pharma giants of Europe, North America, and Japan. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

With more and more farmers using genetically modified corn from Monsanto Company that resists plant-killing rootworm, the share of U.S. acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010. But the rootworm has modified its genetics too.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Since the advent of agricultural chemicals in the nineteenth century, a variety of people have warned of risks to public health and the environment, but these people largely struggled to attract an audience until the late 1960s, when organic farming, natural food stores and organic food start-ups started to gain traction. Early Struggles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. I'm also an owner. We did that.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Earlier this week I visited the Palo Alto headquarters of Better Place , the up-start e-mobility services company, to talk about their novel and risky strategy to put an electric car in every garage. Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

From Chick-fil-A to Apple , more and more major companies are taking policy positions on gay marriage. A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. Arguably, there's a business case for supporting it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

First, she was head-hunted to join Dutch DSM, a global science-based company, one of the few women on their executive team. A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. The 50s saw a big change. New mental skills emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Future Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now. To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion.

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