Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Data-driven selvesware could help the global project manager hoping to foster greater cooperation and camaraderie within their team. Their selvesware could perform social-network analytics, prioritize project milestones, and draft post-meeting communiqués designed to get their team interacting more with each other.

KPI 9

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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 latter was a capable strategist with relevant insight into digital technologies — the most pressing strategic issue for the company at that time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

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. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. Right now, the U.S.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Consider Pepsi’s Refresh project , which sought to replace $20 million in Super Bowl spending with a social platform that funded good works. Marketing Strategy'

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

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. ” These agile talents are matched to projects typically for 3 to 6 months.

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. 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