Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Bolognese yarns were sold to the doges of Venice or exchanged for spices and salt, and they were also exported to the large international markets, to France, Germany, England and even to the East.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. There’s $12 trillion in business opportunities for solving sustainability challenges. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 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. 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

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. business continuity"). Right now, the U.S.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Each time, the idea was dropped, because both businesses had carved out lucrative niches for themselves and were doing quite well. First one and then two companies took aim at each unit’s market, aggressively selling products at lower prices. You may say we need to adhere to a single revenue model. But all patents expire.

Case Study 8

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 8

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. I don’t think so. But they do it very consciously.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). It’s hard out there if you’re a utility.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10