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.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

Innovation 16

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

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. The technology ecosystem known as the internet of real-time data is moving us toward a better understanding of what these consumers are thinking and doing.

Retail 13

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. Their goal is to lower product prices to gain market share away from competitors who import into the country.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” You start by creating a “reverse income statement” for the project (you can see an example in the original article ).

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf and the SHE team, for example, first identified in banana-plants a local agro-waste fiber, and after experimenting, concluded that it had the potential to be an absorbent, cheap, safe material. They then approached MIT to partner on enhancing the process to make it more absorbent.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Many also find it useful to track succession and promotion—for example, by holding annual reviews of a company’s top 30 to 50 key executives. Directors have long assumed responsibility for selecting and replacing CEOs, both in the normal course of business and in “hit by a bus” scenarios.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

He’d been the one to suggest that Unamano aim to quadruple the revenues of the small businesses it targeted, an audacious goal given the long odds facing any emerging-market start-up. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. An Acute Need.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

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. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

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.

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Companies are aiming higher, for themselves and their partners: Dell, Coca-Cola, Lego, and many more set very aggressive environmental and social goals. Goals are not the same as outcomes but they matter a lot – they set the bar within sectors, driving competition and performance. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. China, China, and China. The total: 145 million euros.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Advances in manufacturing technology. Of the major manufacturing sectors, only chemicals, food, and beverages and tobacco products saw a meaningful increase in the number of firms.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 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. 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.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

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. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. negotiators. In recent years, U.S.

GDP 8

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. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8