Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. 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.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

Career 15

Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. Potential innovation benefits are literally not worth it. Money can change everything.

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Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. manufacturing sector.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Sustainability expert Andrew Winston delivered a keynote, and was joined on the panel by David Walker, director of environmental sustainability at PepsiCo, and David Struhs , strategy VP at C3, a company whose analytics are helping the likes of Dow and Pacific Gas and Electric optimize their energy use. A tall order, maybe.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?" Then the November 16th issue arrived at my door and the cover story was about alternative energy.

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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Businesses in all industries must take note and must take action, and with these top innovations leading the way the future is indeed looking brighter. The Rise of Sustainable Innovation. Sustainable innovation has arisen for two main reasons: Public Awareness. Top Sustainable Innovations to Be Aware Of. Pineapple Fabric.

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Innovation Fashion Chemicals Environment 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

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Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

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?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. In 2015, it had been one of Wall Street’s most favored alternative energy companies.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Firms as diverse as Walmart and KKR are finding that reducing energy use and embracing renewable energy can be immediately profitable. Marc Benioff.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does. In the guitar business , too.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). Unilever U.S. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011.

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McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy. In October, 99% of the new energy added to the grid in the U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.”

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. Facebook employs a Green Energy Czar, so I can easily imagine a Zero Carbon leader or Extreme Weather VP.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

We partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to do a sophisticated chemical analysis of drinking bowls excavated from the tomb of the king of Phrygia, in what today is central Turkey. Is there an opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and create value at the margins?”

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Daisuke Kan, the 30-year-old COO of a beverages company, Cheerio Corporation, was desperate to send free cans of an energy drink, Life Guard, to places where people lacked water and food. Then students in college, they started talking about the need to create a society with a new value system.

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Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 14

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. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.).

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This matters because prediction is an input to a host of activities including transportation, agriculture, healthcare, energy manufacturing, and retail. Once prediction became cheap, innovators reframed driving as a prediction problem. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them.

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Before I turned to writing and starting an incubator, my last traditional office job was leading growth and innovation at a Fortune 100 company. Google is doing this with its forays into energy, self-driving cars, and augmented-reality eyeglasses. Beneath every service lies physicality, if you look hard enough.

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ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. For over 200 years, from Thomas Malthus to the Limits to Growth gang, many people have made the case that it won't be long before we'll run out of food, energy, materials, and on and on. It's an idea that has enthralled many, but has seemed to be wrong.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This may all change as China innovates and grows. But we also make super-sophisticated products like jet engines, airplanes, satellites, radar, advanced medical devices, pharmaceuticals, all kinds of chemicals, the world’s most sophisticated robots, military goods, and the world’s most advanced computer chips and computers.

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Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8