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

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. So the war for talent is on.

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

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

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

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

JULY 29, 2014

Nearly 40 percent of the 312 CFOs and other executives participating in Deloitte’s 2013 Global Finance Talent Survey said they are either “barely able” or “unable” to meet the demand for the talent required to run their organizations. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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

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

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. Leaders who had access to global and more visible experiences are more likely to advance.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

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

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

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

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

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. 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

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

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

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. 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

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Every community must find a healthy balance between cohesion and diversity.

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.

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. Democrats are less pessimistic about the economy: 10% of Democrats expect a global economic slowdown in the next three years, compared to 18% of Republicans.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8