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?

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 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.

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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. Broaden perspectives.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

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. Starbucks, for example, has a strong presence because CEO Howard Schultz, deliberately developed a growth plan grounded in its capabilities.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

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.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

For example, in the early 2000s, P&G investigated the cleaning habits of Indian consumers who washed garments by hand. But since hand washers constitute 80% of the home-based washing market in India, it was too big a market to ignore. Since the goal is learning, companies should ensure they keep tests simple and focused.

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Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 12

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.

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Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 13

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.

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Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

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.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 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. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

For example, interns at PricewaterhouseCoopers championed a social audit practice. The company committed to goals of being water neutral by 2012, carbon neutral by 2017, and ultimately zero waste. Accounting and consulting firms are often highly responsive to the social demands of their employees.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. Research is also demonstrating that basing performance purely on beating the competition or making money can actually decrease employees' intrinsic motivations to pursue a goal.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

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. .”

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

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? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. Big mistake.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

” This is just one example of the dysfunction that exists in cross-functional teams. maintaining alignment with the company’s corporate goals. For example, if the PGT includes vice presidents of engineering, design, marketing and product, a project team could include managers and directors from those functions.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products.

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy. came from renewables (solar alone was 72%).

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

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.

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Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Right now, the U.S.

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

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System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. The discovery-driven approach will dramatically change how you lead strategic growth.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Each year 40 high potential young leaders from around the globe come together and work in teams on projects like “How do we grow our business in the chemicals industry?” So does ScanDisk and Shire.

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Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Trade barriers also block competition: For example, Chinese electric carmakers must use batteries made in China and can’t purchase them from Japanese and Korean sources. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. negotiators.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

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.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8