Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2023
Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2017
The fraction of global manufacturing done in Asia (measured by value added) jumped from 29% in 2000 to 45% in 2015. In 2004, the cost of manufacturing on the east coast of China was approximately 15 percentage points cheaper, on average, than in the United States. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2011
Yet when it comes to the international nonmarket rules for business, American firms have disengaged just at the time when these emerging markets are asserting themselves in global dealmaking. business to rethink what it wants on major global talks on trade (and climate change, for that matter). It is time for U.S. Leading U.S.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. In 2005, they launched a U.S.
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."
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