Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation. during the assembly. The case is clear.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know better than anyone at any time in the history of humans what it takes to create a workplace where people want to come to work, joyfully invest their efforts and talents into a cause greater than themselves, and go home happy to children who are learning from their examples. And yet we’re still screwing it up. Don’t you think?

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

If your answer is yes to one or more of these questions, you may have or be developing an addiction that’s tied to dopamine, a type of neurotransmitter in your brain. To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. So, what is dopamine and what role does it play in how we act?

Chemicals 207

Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Let’s look at four examples of how different corporations responded when faced with this question.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For example, as a leading cause of preventable deaths , cigarette smoking is one of the most studied and most complex public health problems. One example of this is California’s Proposition 65 , the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which established warning requirements for carcinogens and reproductive toxicants.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

But some of the most interesting examples of innovation come from new additions to the BCL Top 20 list. These examples illustrate five practices that any company can adopt to create a culture of innovation: 1. Create a safe space for innovation.

Innovation 16

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

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. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. You are likely to discover, along the way, that you lack the capabilities you need, and must develop them from scratch.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, Tesco uses vast data sets culled from decades of customers' Clubcard use to make pricing decisions, influence shoppers to buy specific items, and build loyalty. Many homeowners, for example, have connected their alarm systems to security companies; many drivers accept having devices such as mileage trackers in their vehicles.

Retail 13

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 13

Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

Leading a group of people is a lot like conducting a grand experiment, where the “scientist&# ( the leader ) fills a laboratory ( the business ) with test subjects ( the team ), and then sets up parameters, calibrates goals, and eventually makes a hypothesis on each one of them. Then, every day, those hypothesis get tested.

Chemicals 222

Chemicals Leadership Blog Comparison 222

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

David Walker, for example, described PepsiCo's "ReCon" (for "resource conservation") tool, a diagnostic for understanding in-plant water and energy use and creating strategies for reducing them. Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. Fleming focuses on cross-pollination in the context of “big D” Development, which often involves recombination of existing knowledge to serve commercial goals.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

My own workplace is an example. When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. Neither had much marketing experience, but we invested in their development, and after retraining they moved over. Serious accountability.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Most of its sales are in the developing world (including 40% in Africa) — where it sells its HIV drugs for about $350 per year per patient — yet it is as profitable as the pharma giants of Europe, North America, and Japan. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

Company 12

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

For example, interns at PricewaterhouseCoopers championed a social audit practice. In retail, Whole Foods has eliminated plastic bags, worked to develop local suppliers, and opened stores with affordable products in low-income communities with limited access to fresh produce.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

For example, when Google launched a big data-driven program to identify what separated their top managers from the rest, and they ended up with bromides such as "be a good coach," "empower your team" and "be a good communicator.". In short, he is an empire builder, and we don't have to look far to find examples of empire-building bosses.

Management 16

Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Individuals may not focus on long-term benefits of a given action when a short-term reward (for example smoking a cigarette, consuming a large pizza, or spending hours watching television) is more appealing. Senior leaders not only speak of its importance to the organization’s success, they lead by example.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. However, their views were not taken into account in the decision to launch the shuttle.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Our goal is to help lead the way and to bring as many people along as we can. But we’re not stopping there.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture. Linear plans.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). The goal is giving students a vocabulary and capability for interactively understanding the links between technology design and construction. What makes a toaster toast?

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. An Acute Need.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

One example of this sticks in my mind. The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. In all, four workers were killed. .”

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 27, 2010

You simply should not stay in an organization, especially as a leader, if you do not support the organization’s goals. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. If you cannot find a way to support the organizational direction, get out of the organization.

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Leadership Engineering FAQ Video 248

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.” And it’s really hard for leaders to change that culture, even when they become aware of the problem. “Then, 17 years later, we have the Columbia explosion. .”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020.

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. ” This is just one example of the dysfunction that exists in cross-functional teams. Leading Teams.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

One of our key findings was that teams functioning more like machines – blindly following highly defined processes and execution plans — were the least effective at achieving their goals and coming up with innovations. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Companies are aiming higher, for themselves and their partners: Dell, Coca-Cola, Lego, and many more set very aggressive environmental and social goals. Goals are not the same as outcomes but they matter a lot – they set the bar within sectors, driving competition and performance.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.” We quantify reality in order to track progress.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Of the major manufacturing sectors, only chemicals, food, and beverages and tobacco products saw a meaningful increase in the number of firms. Advances in manufacturing technology.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10