HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Employee Privacy The holiday season might be the best time of the year for some, but not every employee from an organization celebrates equally, whether due to personal preferences or cultural conditions. They have access to every department and employee and as a result, have to do what they can to coordinate plans all across the company.

Compliance 52

Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

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. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Do you have examples of companies that are innovating wisely across geographies? facility in Cambridge Science Park.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The key, for any successful organization, is to maintain a balanced portfolio of pioneers, migrators and settlers—or, put another way, of red and blue oceans, even as once pioneers get imitated. Forward-thinking executives understand that the real business they are in is not cosmetics or foods or chemicals or computers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Corporate cultures where diversity and openness thrive will more likely attract top talent, especially young, creative, and entrepreneurial candidates. The two decades that have followed have seen an increase in marketing and advertising to the LGBT market that Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated at $800 billion in 2011.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

That’s just the beginning of the confusion—even if you accepted that such diverse investments should all be grouped into one category, how do you even measure and compare impact anyway? First, they search for examples of impact within their existing portfolios, bringing no incremental capital into the field.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. OK, you might say, it’s not fair to compare a large, for-profit enterprise with a mission-driven organization.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

To make sense of all of this activity, I made a list of the year’s big themes, looking for the bigger story across multiple examples. Adding to the momentum, Google publicly cut ties with climate-change-denying lobbying group ALEC , saying that the organization was lying about the science.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

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. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8