Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Let’s use “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building. For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. How endearing is your brand to your customers? This week, we’ll discuss the first two.

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Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 10, 2010

Here are some examples of perceptions stated as facts: “It’s cold (or hot) in here.&# “The iPod (or some other brand) is the best mp3 player on the market.&# “Ford (Chevy,Honda, etc) is the best car maker.&# “Avatar (The Hurt Locker, The Blind Side, etc.) The iPod is the best mp3 player on the market.

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Engineering Tips FAQ Video 212

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Monsanto is a good example. I’ve seen plenty of examples where giants are successful in spite of themselves.

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

For example, rather than assuming someone intentionally did something to irritate me, I work to ask myself a question like: “I wonder if they meant that the way I heard it?&# He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. leading, and communication with others.

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Skills Engineering FAQ Video 200

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. It’s more than simply clumsy leadership.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 31, 2010

For example, I have a strong blend of Cautious, Dominant, and Supportive traits. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. All Best News | Promotional Content Marketing Wisdom says: March 31, 2010 at 6:29 pm [.] It’s just the simplest word I can find at the moment.)

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FAQ Letter Engineering Video 114

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Going after future opportunities at the micromarket level can seem risky, but basing strategy on old views of markets and their past performance is riskier still. The first step is to overlay the rough allocation of resources across markets on the basis of their overall potential. Consider the case of a chemicals company.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking. Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. Broaden perspectives.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

economy at this time – specifically electricity and chemicals, which accounted for 13.9% For example, in the 1940s Canadian immigrant James Hillier developed the first commercially viable electron microscope at Radio Corporation of America alongside Ladislaus Marton, a Belgian inventor, Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian inventor, and U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Long-term Technology Chemicals 9

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.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

In the wink/twitch example, customer intelligence would only tell us that there was eye movement — not what kind or what it meant. This was not a huge surprise — any report can tell you the rising percentage of technology ownership among families in emerging markets. When the Data Trail Goes Cold.

Trends 15

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. One option is for multinational companies to go flat out for market leadership in China; that is, try to be either No. 2 in the market. Go for Broke.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Thats what Chinas Hi-Tech Fair is doing.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Boards Innovation Leadership' An HBR Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). Don’t underestimate the importance of cultural fit.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). But that''s not the case.

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

But just four months into his new job, as a business unit leader at a large specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer, he was struggling with the challenges of handling a global business with more than 3000 employees.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Execution Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. Both Ford and Chrysler’s hierarchies place safety directors closer to the CEO, and management experts told the AP that “safety ranks higher at other companies as well, especially food, drug, and chemical makers.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. My eldest uncle''s sons have also been unable to break into leadership positions. As the economy improved, the company expanded into machinery and chemicals imports. Our markets have taken a beating. Isn''t News Corp.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 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.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. Executives at Unilever credit their ranking to the company’s known leadership on sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Leadership. by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” I’ll wrap up with an example of a brand and a category suffering the same fate as Brylcreem.

Brand 140

Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

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.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Tools for each challenge are presented, backed by examples from companies – from small firms to global giants – that have successfully put these methods into practice. Surprisingly, big inroads in the physician office-management market are being made by non-traditional players, such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For example, JOLT, a new startup, offers companies access to video-based learning from recognized technical experts in a wide variety of functional areas, providing a just in time skill “jolt” to individuals or teams on exactly the topic they need. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 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.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8