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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients. They have strong due diligence skills.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. But tech is disrupting even this newly restructured industry, as automobiles become computers on wheels.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

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. Why would an industry beat a hasty retreat from a market that continues to boom?"

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it? 1] McKinsey & Co.,

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Back in 1991, a Wall Street Journal article included a chart entitled, "A Dream Market," comparing gay households to the national average, noting the relative potential advertising appeal for a variety of industries. LGBT marketing is on the rise.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. The majority of Halliburton’s revenue is from the sale of products and services to the oil and gas industry. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.”

Brand 140

Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. Although uncertainty is accelerating, it isn’t affecting all industries the same way. and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) — and how much uncertainty your industry faces depends on the interaction of the two.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. Surprisingly, big inroads in the physician office-management market are being made by non-traditional players, such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8