LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.”

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

Some of the 20 companies in the “low” category included Berkshire Hathaway, Exxon Mobil, News Corp, Dow Chemical, and General Dynamics.

Company 53

Company Parcell Books Review 53

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. Early Struggles. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

Organization 9

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Reputation Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

Company 11

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. With markets shrinking and cash flows declining, COOs have built their credibility in most companies by focusing on operational efficiency and helping to meet their margin goals.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

My return flight from Newark to Singapore on last week pushed me over 300,000 miles in the air in 2010. It is the world's second biggest market for Facebook and Blackberries. I've been told really cheap bottled water in India is probably worse than tap water, because chemicals from the plastic eek into the water.

Airlines 15

Airlines Hotels Travel Chemicals 15

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. ” Odile de Damas-Nottin was appointed Senior VP HR of oil group Total’s Marketing & Services division at age 52 and promoted to the TOTAL Group’s Executive Team (32 people) at 54.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing. Yes, we have competitors eager to – how do they always put it? – eat our lunch.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Creativity Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets. Another example is microreactor technology, which is used in chemicals production processes; the scalable reactors promise fast and cost-effective production increases.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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.,

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

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 ). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. While the overall carbon emissions news is not good , the renewable energy market is growing very fast.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. The two decades that have followed have seen an increase in marketing and advertising to the LGBT market that Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated at $800 billion in 2011.

Advertising 16

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

stock markets. For example, for companies to know where their tantalum comes from — the metal is widely used by the electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical, and aircraft turbine industries — they need to survey their suppliers and persuade them to survey their suppliers, and so on. We wanted to find out.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9