Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

For example, Marijn Dekkers, who served as the CEO of Bayer, is also the chair of Unilever, an independent director on GE’s board, president of the German Chemical Industry Association, and vice president of the Federation of German Industry. Most boards have strong cultures that promote deference to the CEO.

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. We offer three pieces of advice. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” ” With Anderson’s help, Staples’ net profits grew more than tenfold over the next five years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. Sam Austin/Unsplash. The participants compete to show skill in their work, and often do so with great passion.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Corporate Accountability Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We developed dozens of new innovation ideas with managers in the company but the board, though initially enthusiastic, never took the time and energy to engage with the projects, directing their attention on day-to-day operational issues instead. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” It offers practical advice to employers, large and small, based on the latest research on workplace programs, expert advice from practitioners and candid interviews with business leaders. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. This, of course, takes time and support.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. I mean, we’ve got a roomful of college students, any advice on how they find those organizations? A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. They know my stuff.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. I mean, we’ve got a roomful of college students, any advice on how they find those organizations? A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. They know my stuff.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. As for me, I''m happily uninvolved!

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In nature, barriers — between organic and inorganic chemicals, between land and sea, between species, between everything — have been built, tested, overcome, rebuilt, and overcome again with almost endless repetition. So how do we operate in an effectively open-source world without barriers?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” Peter was amused to see Emanuel struggle with the description of his sophisticated research instruments as “machines” and his vast array of chemical and biological consumables as analogous to disposable razor blades. Both companies had been attractive acquisition targets for Scherr.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

The business literature is unfortunately rife with advice to "learn from failures." Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. One HBR article from the 1990s held up BP as an exemplar of learning from failure.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

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. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company. Determining the impact of political spending on stakeholders, the firm’s long-term interests, on broader issues in which it may have a stake, and the needs of the society in which the company operates.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8