Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It is also important that your attention to being systematic be teamed with an ability to being open to possibility for new ways of doing things. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important. Systems drive efficiency and results.

Leadership 221

Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. And their leaders are doing likewise. Don’t you think?

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Operations Group Baring Private Equity.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

A good example comes from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, who have developed a robot to try and ensure spaces are kept as clean as possible. During testing, the team measured the amount of UVC light being emitted with a UVC dosimeter to ensure safe levels were used. Keeping it clean.

Banking 84

Banking Environment Chemicals System 84

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

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

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

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. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. Like Wilson, Anderson was able to lead the senior team. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. That was fast, Liu thought.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

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. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Process owners misunderstand their role.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We’ve certainly had to change too. So we do let some people go.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. Better leadership is emerging as the defining quality that governs the ability to attain positive outcomes and get the best performance possible out of teams.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This will lead to significant gaps in areas such as engineering, petrol-chemicals, utilities, defense manufacturing, education, healthcare, and air traffic control. Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Leading proponents of this approach use the data-talks-to-data concept developed by IBM's Jeff Jonas and his team in the Entity Analytics group. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances.

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., we have a responsibility to lead.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. ” You and Your Team Series. Sam Austin/Unsplash. Craft your work – and make work a craft. Dan Pontefract.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Corporate Accountability Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

First, she was head-hunted to join Dutch DSM, a global science-based company, one of the few women on their executive team. A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. The 50s saw a big change. This propelled her into a re-accelerated career phase.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Dow Chemical Company, for example, needs to assess costs and risks every time it considers a site for a new manufacturing facility. Johnson Controls has 170,000 employees and specializes in optimizing the energy and operational efficiency of buildings. .: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems…Where Governments Cannot.).

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. 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. the family was asking.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. And in the end, leadership development and character development are one. And that’s what’s it all about.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. And in the end, leadership development and character development are one. And that’s what’s it all about.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

You and Your Team. In both cases participants read about a new medication that boosts immune function and reduces occurrence of the common cold, ostensibly developed by a large pharmaceutical company. Understanding Analytics. Get over your fear of data. Graphs have a scientific halo—we associate them with science and objectivity.

Press Release 8

Press Release Participative Pharmaceuticals Chemicals 8

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 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. The crisis teams need to be prepared. Business development. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Crisis Management 74

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 74