LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Monsanto is a good example. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. For example, do you have enough margin in your relationships to… Withstand a communication error? Survive a missed appointment?

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

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

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Monsanto is a good example. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

One example of this sticks in my mind. The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. In all, four workers were killed. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

For example, a high-growth urban pocket with low competitive intensity where a company does not have much coverage should add "hunter" capacity; depending on customer density, that market might be able to sustain a few such reps, each specializing in a particular set of customer segments. Consider the case of a chemicals company.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%.

Company 9

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

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. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. For example, a successful white male in a U.S. Ronaldo Schmitz), one Asian (myself) and one Canadian (Dr. John McArthur).

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 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. Boards Innovation Leadership' How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In conversations, for example, they devote their full attention and listen carefully. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Does Your Boss Give Off Good Energy?

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Individuals may not focus on long-term benefits of a given action when a short-term reward (for example smoking a cigarette, consuming a large pizza, or spending hours watching television) is more appealing. Leadership commitment and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. So what does?

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

For example, you might simply say to yourself: “I’m stressed about my son failing school.” We aren’t suggesting that sustained stress does not take a toll, only that it can bring unexpected benefits, too, in the form of personal growth. ” Or “I’m stressed about our year-end numbers.”

Stress 8

Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

If CEOs are going to operate for stakeholder value — rather than just for shareholder value — then their pay ought to be structured in a way that supports them doing so. For example, most financial analysts would say that the drivers of share price in the U.S. How can that be "bad"? bonus plans, according to our research.

TSR 10

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. Although I suppose there are counter examples too.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 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.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable. A similar set of problems bedevils Japan.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

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. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. What can be done to prevent a situation like the one with Kate?

Leadership 12

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 12

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. It’s much more common than it used to be.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

You don’t have to look far for examples of political spending gone awry. Chevron is another example. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company. Some companies, for example, have a policy of contributing only to ballot initiatives. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8