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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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

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

JANUARY 27, 2014

In such cases officials, investors and other parties put extraordinary trust in the people they know at the helm of the successful conglomerate, for example to realize their pet projects, invest their funds or set up a joint venture – and are willing to pay a premium for it. Take a tobacco company in the U.S. There is no “scope effect.”

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 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. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Moreover, they can harness the drive to win that characterizes companies competing on the world stage today.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 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

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

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

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

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

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. Here are examples from several industries.

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 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 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? First, they search for examples of impact within their existing portfolios, bringing no incremental capital into the field.

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. But consider the example of American Express and its long-running Open Forum initiative. McDonald’s has a great business in India, where beef is taboo and the company must cater to strict vegetarian diets.

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. To make sense of all of this activity, I made a list of the year’s big themes, looking for the bigger story across multiple examples.

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