The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. While innovative, it was sad. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. Makes no sense. Most of my older posts can be found at.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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