HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

The management person deals with sales, marketing, and branding of a company and its services and products; the HR consultant does the same job but his or her focus is on the people in the organization. Training managers hold workshops, conferences and other gatherings pertaining to the company, and team-building exercises.

Career 87

Career Human Resources Outsourcing Compliance 87

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What they found is that America's patent system only provides positive incentives for innovation in two industries: pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The value that a patent confers on its owner is outweighed by the cost of obtaining, asserting, and defending that patent for almost all American companies.

Innovation 12

Innovation Chemicals Incentives Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

While companies are increasingly using detailed analytics to fine-tune pricing, packaging, and product performance, analytics have their limits when it comes to finding the next big idea. But since hand washers constitute 80% of the home-based washing market in India, it was too big a market to ignore. For example, at beta620.nytimes.com

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. The leaders will win by integrating these new valuations effectively into their processes, products, and services.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. At a later news conference, OSHA announced that it was assessing its smallest fine, as a result of the forthright way in which my client had handled the crisis. Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position.

Crisis Management 79

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 79