Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This was not a huge surprise — any report can tell you the rising percentage of technology ownership among families in emerging markets. In prioritizing parents' deeper needs, our client regained market leadership. Why E-mail Marketing Is King. When the Data Trail Goes Cold. But that's where the data trail ended.

Trends 15

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

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 Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

“In all cities and markets and in the countryside,” the Reinheitsgebot reads, “only barley, hops, and water may be used for brewing beer.” But experts think the law was really about protecting markets, not consumers. Five hundred years ago, on April 23, 1516, two Bavarian dukes enacted the law.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

To fuel their analysis, Graetz and Michaels employ new data from the International Federation of Robotics to analyze the use of industrial robots across 14 industries in 17 countries between 1993 and 2007. More recently, other analysis has shown that the pervasive IT revolution supported 0.60% of labor productivity growth and 1.0%

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

In fact, among the 65 industries and almost 6,000 companies we studied across the globe, no industry had a TSR variation that was lower than 30 percentage points, and the variation in one industry, chemicals, was a whopping 206 percentage points. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. With semiconductors we could calculate cheaply, so activities for which arithmetic was a key input, such as data analysis and accounting, became much cheaper. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them.

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Boards are clearly aligned with business leaders and executives on their outlooks for 2016.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. In countries like Mozambique and Rwanda, where the per capita GDP is under $1,000, the average annual cost of $33 (12 months x 5 days x 5 pad/day x.11/pad)

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

First, Maryann Keller, a former auto analyst, notes that, historically, GM hasn’t invested in root-cause analysis. Both Ford and Chrysler’s hierarchies place safety directors closer to the CEO, and management experts told the AP that “safety ranks higher at other companies as well, especially food, drug, and chemical makers.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The researcher at Johns Hopkins predicted that the Budweiser spot would be a winner after conducting a two-year analysis of 108 Super Bowl commercials. A story can go where quantitative analysis is denied admission: our hearts. If Keith Quesenberry were a betting man, he would have cleaned up. That’s exactly what makes it so powerful.

Storytelling 21

Storytelling Tools Power Advertising 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Furthermore, during the period examined, immigrants were responsible for a quarter of the total economic value of patents granted, as determined by the stock market’s response to new patents. The high-skilled immigrants we have in the U.S.

Innovation 76

Innovation Diversity Chemicals Technology 76

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

For instance, intelligent failures can add more value than predictable successes, and low-cost experimentation trumps analysis. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. A shift toward protectionism.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Two impressive pieces of analysis made the case that moving to a clean economy is profitable – both for society and for the private sector. All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I). Financing the clean economy.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

We now have three years’ worth of reports in hand, and our analysis , published in the Academy of Management Journal, shows that giant multinational corporations often have little idea where their raw materials come from. stock markets. Filing companies were primarily based in the U.S.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9