Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. Early Struggles. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

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?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

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.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

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.

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

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.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. In the U.S. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

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.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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 ). Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. What can one say about the failure of solar company Solyndra ?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

My return flight from Newark to Singapore on last week pushed me over 300,000 miles in the air in 2010. If there is a company that has higher service standards than Singapore Airlines, I'd like to see it. If Apple isn't worried about Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese companies, it should be. Don't forget about Indonesia.

Airlines 15

Airlines Hotels Travel Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing. Yes, we have competitors eager to – how do they always put it? – eat our lunch.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. Filing companies were primarily based in the U.S. stock markets. Only about 1% of the companies were able to declare that their products were conflict-free beyond a reasonable doubt.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9