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. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

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.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

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. Getting the operating team into the M&A process early on helps them build good relationships with their counterparts.

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 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

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. billion in mining projects since 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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. Olam , an agri-business with seed-to-shelf operations across 65 countries, has already organized its efforts around two of the global goals. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions.

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 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. This was followed by an eight-year “plateau” in her thirties, running training for the French operation, when she had her three children. New mental skills emerge.

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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. Many of these jobs – those dealing with computers, for example – could not have been foreseen in 1963, since computers were still primitive and rare.

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Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. (It

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Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

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 ). The movement has been building for years, from P&G opening up its product development pipeline early in the 2000s to the launch of the GreenXchange for sharing green patents early in 2010.

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. In June, it was reported that Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS6, will include gay and lesbian couple icons as emoticon selections.

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Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

First, the more global the company (in terms of the range of countries it operated in and the proportion of its sales made outside the U.S.), It’s no wonder so many consumers have no idea where their favorite brands come from. But are businesses any better informed than their customers? We wanted to find out. Two things stood out to us.

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Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9