Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation. during the assembly. The case is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. They spur the production of oxytocin, a feel-good hormone that elevates our ability to communicate, collaborate and trust others by activating networks in our prefrontal cortex. Behaviors that spark oxytocin, by contrast, raise C-IQ.

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Positioning Chemicals Ryan Discount 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. The result will be innovation. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. They’re so far removed from it. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Collaboration Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

In misguided attempts to boost productivity and direct innovation, managers can kill both creativity and passion — the intrinsic motivation required to stay deeply engaged in work — by destroying people's autonomy. They have very conflicting goals, causing us to start, stop, re-start, etc.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. They find that higher-valued industrial innovation (by its nature also riskier) is more likely to arise when diverse teams are assembled of people with deep subject matter expertise in their areas.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. The occurrence of a serious error — such as a shuttle explosion, a large-scale oil spill, or a safety-related product recall — triggers the learning cycle. Employees leave the company.

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many IT organizations, having achieved this original mission, now are turning to the next thing, which is innovation. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation. It formed the unit in part by transferring data and analytics practitioners from the operating divisions and IT.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed.

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Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. 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

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. Do they always succeed in these endeavors?

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

And that means educators worldwide must revisit how they want to make their most important product — their students — more valuable. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). What makes a toaster toast?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Attacking "other" greenhouse gases , those that can be much more powerful warming agents than CO2, such as methane (which comes from animals/farms, natural gas leaks, and landfills) and HFCs (the class of chemicals used in refrigerants). It''s not just innovation to avoid regulations — that''s old school.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf found that absorbent wood pulp was the biggest raw material manufacturing expense for pads, and wondered if cheaper indigenous materials could be used for local production, and if also coupled with a more efficient distribution network, there might be a real business opportunity given the huge underserved populations.

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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

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

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. Food and food waste gets more attention, debate, and innovation: Can cows save the world, or should we make meat in labs?

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

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.". And what did they say was their biggest concern?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

maintaining alignment with the company’s corporate goals. Teams are hurt by unclear governance, by a lack of accountability, by goals that lack specificity, and by organizations’ failure to prioritize the success of cross-functional projects. Every project should have clearly established goals, resources, and deadlines.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. 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").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

As I've written before , there's plenty of evidence that people who make a tangible product, use their senses, and help others are happier than mere office dwellers. Before I turned to writing and starting an incubator, my last traditional office job was leading growth and innovation at a Fortune 100 company. Send them to the factory.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a

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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. ” It means that training is going to have to be just as agile as the workforce — where speed, flexibility, and innovation are key. Today’s workforces are designed for speed and flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. 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. days of innovation). Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8