The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I have had training in DISC with Carlson Learning Company and Inscape. 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. .

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to talk with a class of second year MBA’s, and one of the most outstanding questions students raised was whether they should take jobs with companies that they considered to be socially irresponsible. For example, the group was deeply divided about tobacco companies. Of course they don’t.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At first, I think leadership is a chemical results of all features of a person. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I couldn’t agree with you more, MJ, that leadership really is a lot of this and that.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

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. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

You could argue that Cipla's formula is simply to piggyback on other companies' products, so it doesn't have to pay for R&D. In the US, Cipla sells its products generic pharmaceutical companies such as Teva and Eagle. irketi in 2011 provided expansion in Turkey. Cipla is not a stranger to M&A either. laç Ticaret Anonim ?irketi

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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. Insects resistant to the Monsanto corn appeared in 2011 and are now scattered across the Midwest. acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010.

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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

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

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. But just as valuable is the company''s ability to energize and empower front-line employees. The projects produced financial and environmental benefits, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Japan is in a state of crisis at present , but its future may be in safe hands judging by the manner in which the country's young people have rallied in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis that struck on March 11, 2011. However, those stuck en route had no way of knowing where to go.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Around the same time, the French beauty company, L’Oréal, said it would stop selling its flagship brand, Garnier, in the country. And Western Internet companies such as Yahoo!,

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

That’s our version of a scientific hypothesis – “If I lead a person THIS way, this person will react to it in THAT way, and they will make their expected contribution to the overall company objectives&# It’s quite a challenge, because that process has to be repeated for each member of the team. Popularity: 1% [ ?

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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. It is commonly believed that emerging market companies tap Western R&D talent in order to 'move up the value chain.' Is your company globalizing R&D? facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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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. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. of the time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. But companies will need new positions as well.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. 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.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

It was caused by chemical imbalances in her brain, not by problems in her life. One of them was "The Beaver" (2011), starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster (directed by Jodie Foster). Walter Black, the CEO of a toy company, suffers from chronic depression. Copyright 2011. And one of my personal heroes. Post by Dennis E.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. Workplace Flexibility is Top Consideration for Nearly Three-Fourths of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It is clearly part of the larger asset remix that started several years ago with deals in biopharma, such as Sanofi-Genzyme (2011), Novartis-GSK (2014), and a couple of failed attempts by Pfizer to merge and move its headquarters abroad. Then the insurance companies attempted to consolidate, and were blocked by the antitrust authorities.

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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

MARCH 17, 2011

It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers. But for a significant period of time, responses from the company and the government were confusing. Decision-Making Processes.

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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

JUNE 15, 2016

Some companies have ridden this wave. Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe. How can this be?

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. Despite pervasive recall awareness, we have CEOs, many who run companies with substantial capacity to maim the domain of life, with their heads in the sand. March 21, 2011 at 4:16 pm. >Hi In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. ’ The companies exist to exploit existing businesses, not to create new ones.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

These are important numbers to wrap your head around, but what do they really mean for countries and companies? For perspective, in 2011 carbon intensity improved just 0.8%. 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011. Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994. How fast do we have to change?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

but are still, as is clear from the chart below, costing companies a lot of money. These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.”

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