Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. million times.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This approach gives managers a tool for coaching their teams to get better results. That line of thinking shuts us down, puts us on the defensive, and narrows our possibilities to rescue operations. Managers should keep this in mind, particularly during performance reviews. Managers and coaches can keep this in mind.

Chemicals 18

Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These two unprecedented events are stark reminders that effective crisis management involving complex science and technology is wholly dependent on well-thought-out — and actively practiced — crisis response plans. government initially left many dimensions of crisis management and response to BP. Heineman, Jr.,

Crisis Management 14

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. besides the military.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Liu nodded, not surprised.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 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. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. So what conditions give process owners the best chance of success?

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. And at Harvard Business Review, we want to lead a discussion about how to make that happen. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Climate Change on HBR.org. by Forest L.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Future Economy. Future Thinking. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

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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. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. 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.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? We need a much broader and deeper understanding of the role of board and senior management in a large, complex corporation. It was not able to assess the failure of Cameron's blow-out preventer.)

Analysis 14

Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization? What do you think?

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

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. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The family asked us to review the COO''s strategy for the business as part of its corporate governance process. I''m not naming it to protect client confidentiality.)

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. GE states, “The primary role of GE’s Board of Directors is to oversee how management serves the interests of shareowners and other stakeholders.”

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

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. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

Company 8

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. How much uncertainty does your industry you face?

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Managing water and energy risks will benefit from a full view of their costs and value to the business. Water and energy demand are deeply linked.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions. Global leaders must be effective in aligning employees around the company's mission and values, empowering people to lead, and collaborating horizontally rather than managing vertically.

Globalization 13

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We do that by connecting the front line with management in a continuing dialogue.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., we have a responsibility to lead.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. That is good news for managers and investors. In a new research paper , I tease apart the factors associated with the growth in corporate valuations relative to assets ( Tobin’s Q ) and the growth in operating margins.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

After reviewing the roles and responsibilities of each board and the natures of the new businesses, the team derived lists of the skills each board needed. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. “Managing career cycles with flexibility and non-linear trajectories is important for us. It was a meaningful shift, allowing her to push for more sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. The communicator: leadership as stage management. Getting this match wrong can bring misery to all concerned and cause considerable damage.

Leadership 11

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. As the senior HR executive in charge of managing overseas assignments, Anton Danois made a point of spending time with Streuvels Chemicals' expatriate employees and their families.

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