Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Over the past decade, technology companies and their leaders have launched diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, hoping to make employees of all backgrounds and experiences feel welcome in our industry. This led me to coin the term “DIBs,” the combination of diversity and inclusion with belonging.

Diversity 8

Diversity Storytelling Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. Former President, Dow Chemical USA.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. In order for a company to access the best possible talent they must access the broadest possible talent pool.

Team 12

Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Too many multinational companies — particularly Japanese, Indian, German, and some American ones — still concentrate vital decisions in the hands of a small group of trusted leaders from their home country. In order to adapt to local cultures and market needs, companies must shift to decentralized, collaborative decision-making.

Globalization 14

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. The vast majority of board members told us their companies are hiring in double-digits and across the globe. Are you and your company ready?

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

All three companies nurture and energize talent, carving out the necessary resources to invest in recruiting, selecting and growing the people who will become their future leaders. So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 10, 2017

The cast of Iron Fist was also racially diverse. From Colleen Wing (played by Jessica Henwick, also from Game Of Thrones) to the return of Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson reprised her role from Daredevil , Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage), there was a lot of diversity in the supposedly whitewashed Iron Fist. Be different.

Leadership 171

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Training Power 171

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. The longer the time horizon, the more appealing many aspects of ESG, as mentioned above.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Many companies, big and small, are examining their own commitments to sustainability in light of America’s shift. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy?

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Often, the holiday season involves many companies working overtime, entirely in overdrive, to keep up with the demands of the masses. They have access to every department and employee and as a result, have to do what they can to coordinate plans all across the company.

Compliance 52

Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Maybe you can identify with a marketing professional, an MBA we'll call Sophie, who worked as a product manager in a consumer products company. If they often get overridden by management, people quickly lose the motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This despite Wall Street’s uncertainty since the death of the company’s founder and visionary, Steve Jobs. Consider the recent history of Apple and Microsoft, two tech companies no longer run by their visionary founders, and how each has competed in red or blue oceans. And the company’s future hung in question.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 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. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. Is your company globalizing R&D?

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But then an older, established brewer at a much bigger company followed me onstage. I believe the centuries-long rule of the Reinheitsgebot has resulted in less diversity and creativity in the global beer marketplace. With the company’s financial foundation still unsteady, bad publicity was the last thing we needed.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. This means that companies won’t be able to compensate for lacking growth in Russia just by tapping another market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

After earning a degree in chemical engineering and spending eleven years in production roles at Procter & Gamble, Lynanne was drawn to P&G HR where she spent the next ten years in various roles, before moving over to Whirlpool HR four years ago. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." Yet although the process is widely hyped, many companies struggle to make them work. They train, train, train.

Innovation 8

Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.” Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” Such impromptu discussions strengthen a board’s hand on the company’s pulse. Strategy, especially on the corporate-wide (as opposed to BU) level, is an area where the diverse experiences and pattern-recognition skills of experienced directors enable them to add significant value. Engaging the field.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

For example, the local connectedness of emerging market conglomerates is one of the main reasons why many Western firms, in industries as diverse as electrical power and insurance, set up joint ventures with them. Take a tobacco company in the U.S. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

A lot of companies are doubling down on efforts to finally “crack” the gender issue. Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. . ” DSM moved through three phases.

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Because "good enough" is not good enough, we were interested to learn what percentage of directors "strongly agreed" their companies were doing an effective job on each of these practices--in other words, a great job. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In effect, Welch set out to focus the company on the businesses where it had the potential for greatness, and to jettison everything else. Welch articulated both what GE did well, and what it would not do at all: a critical challenge for all large companies, especially conglomerates.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

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.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Those forces are dramatically changing the way B2B companies and their customers approach buying and selling, too. ” Because of the diversity of buyer self-sufficiency, the traditional methods sellers use to customize their selling approach for customers are no longer enough. Sellers must respond.

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. He’d always pushed Mark to advance in his career, and this was an internal promotion, on a three-year contract, so they’d still be working for the same company.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

’s War Production Board enlisted 21 companies to produce supplies for the war effort, saving countless lives and ushering in the new age of antibiotics. When his wife got tired of the explosions he made mixing chemicals in the kitchen, he moved his work to a second-floor room in a house his mother-in-law owned.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

That’s just the beginning of the confusion—even if you accepted that such diverse investments should all be grouped into one category, how do you even measure and compare impact anyway? Faced with this uncertainty, most investors have chosen one of three options.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi never earned that particular mission and therefore consumers saw little need to reward the company for its efforts. Its genius is that rather than try to specify every single feature of our biology, it provides us with rules for adaptation—first, for chemical gradients in the womb and later for the outside environment.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

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. But I also ran across a few specific company stories that were just really compelling or cool. And it’s a fantastic example of what I call a Big Pivot.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Every year, I find big themes or specific company stories that I feel are impressive, important, or indicative of where the world is going. It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Then came 2016. Trump Shocked the World.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8