Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 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? ” These agile talents are matched to projects typically for 3 to 6 months. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Crisis Management 92

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 92

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. And their leaders are doing likewise. Don’t you think?

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

While I was working with one team to develop a set of options to develop more talent should the fundamental answer turn out to be "no," another team set out to create a model of the company's projected talent supply and demand. His eventual conclusion? There were no facts to be found. in water softeners.

Chemicals 14

Chemicals Project Industry Globalization 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Time after time, new initiatives and projects are rolled out with great fanfare only to end up abandoned and dubbed expensive flops. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

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. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. Leading Teams.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. In total, these brands are projected to reach revenues of $1 billion at Target alone this year. With this level of topline growth, it’s no wonder that Target wants more options.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Data-Driven Marketing. To understand which capabilities matter most, we studied a subset of top-performing companies, as defined by increased market share, self-described excellent pricing decisions, and execution of regular price increases. We gathered their self-rating of 42 pricing capabilities and outcomes. Insight Center.

B2B 9

B2B Price Survey Company 9

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. Here's how Sophie described it: I don't understand why R&D kills so many of my projects when I am supposedly measured on new product development!

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We developed dozens of new innovation ideas with managers in the company but the board, though initially enthusiastic, never took the time and energy to engage with the projects, directing their attention on day-to-day operational issues instead. As a result the innovation projects died on the vine. Executing on Innovation.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily. "So Success was defined as: bids easily won and well executed, satisfied customers, profitable projects, and fun for all.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The person’s capabilities should fit the challenges facing the organization at the time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Data-driven selvesware could help the global project manager hoping to foster greater cooperation and camaraderie within their team. Their selvesware could perform social-network analytics, prioritize project milestones, and draft post-meeting communiqués designed to get their team interacting more with each other.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

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. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

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. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

However, outside North America they tend to be more optimistic about emerging economies: 36% of directors in Asia, 24% of directors in Australia and New Zealand, and 23% of directors in Africa predict faster growth in emerging economies than in developed countries in the next three years.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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. Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. The greening of the supply chain. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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.” Of course, this type of quantification is essential for business success.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8