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. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

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. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it? 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 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. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). 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.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

You can read about it in recent issues of The Economist , The New York Times , and in the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010.

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Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8