Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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. New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Sustainability Talent management'

Metrics 12

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 12

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. The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

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. This media powerhouse offers creative and production services as well as cutting-edge post-production services to such films as Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Globalization 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In early 2014, American cosmetics and skincare products powerhouse Revlon announced that it would pull out of China completely. Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. What if the new products under development strike out? The San Jose, Calif.-based They created explicit criteria.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. But awareness of the challenges is the first step toward managing them. A public commitment to such an effort creates an incentive to follow through.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

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. In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. But please.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These two unprecedented events are stark reminders that effective crisis management involving complex science and technology is wholly dependent on well-thought-out — and actively practiced — crisis response plans. government initially left many dimensions of crisis management and response to BP.

Crisis Management 16

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

It calls on manufacturers to design products that can be disassembled at the end of their product life and recycled at a high level. Through a closed loop system the products are returned and the materials either recycled to make new high value products or put back into the earth through the biosphere. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If this chemical process is thrown out of balance, sexuality in the brain can easily fail to develop normally. When the chromosomes instruct the fetus to develop sex organs, the organs then produce female or male hormones. Male hormones turn the initial female brain into a male brain. Jesus didn't die for perfect people.

Video 105

Video Insurance Blog Learning-by-Doing 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

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. Chipotle aimed to differentiate itself from other quick-serve restaurants on the basis of using local ingredients and local sourcing of its products.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 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. Crisis management'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike. PS: I was the Canadian Brand Manager of Brylcreem during the demise. March 21, 2011 at 4:16 pm.

Brand 140

Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The two decades that have followed have seen an increase in marketing and advertising to the LGBT market that Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated at $800 billion in 2011. Corporate cultures where diversity and openness thrive will more likely attract top talent, especially young, creative, and entrepreneurial candidates.

Advertising 20

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 20

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? But most of your customers don’t care.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That’s because there are two primary types of uncertainty — demand uncertainty (will customers buy your product?) If you’re in the upper right quadrant — or in the top 10 most uncertain industries as shown in the Table — you require greater innovation management skills than industries in the other quadrants or in the bottom 10.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22