The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Later, when I was working as a research engineer in the chemical industry, I used the concept of design margin as I developed new products and worked with customers to get our products qualified for their applications. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Like HBR's traditional case studies, HBR.org's Management Puzzles are based on academic research into business problems. Tania Temple paid for the CEO of Shelston Chemicals and his whole entourage to spend the day at a NASCAR event.

P&L 12

P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

In the first phase of our study, we enrolled 24 “knowledge workers” — managers, architects, and designers — to spend six days, over a two-week period, in a highly controlled work environment at the Syracuse Center of Excellence. What should leaders and building managers take away from these findings?

Productivity 11

Productivity Products PPM Absenteeism 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. Even more intriguingly, this deal was cut independent of approval by higher management.

Innovation 11

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

She had a good relationship with the CEO of a medium-sized chemical company and had done a lot of work with the customer over the years. The chemical firm's CEO asked her to prepare a bid for a new production line that the buyer needed to install quickly. To Build a Great Sales Team, You Need a Great Manager.

Price 13

Price Chemicals Tactics CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The problem, as I described in my last post , is that six things militate against success in the role: The management team's attention shifts to other priorities. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. Every month the top management team (which represents all functions) reviews the measures.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. And we haven’t suffered financially: Fifteen years ago we were losing $15 million a year and physicians had just voted no confidence in management. Serious accountability.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ensuring stress and fatigue are handled immediately and employees are not overworked beyond their limits Crowd management training and preparations for the large crowds expected during the holiday season Ensuing barricades, sufficient staff, managers, visible signboards, etc.,

Compliance 52

Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

The headcount of the data and analytics function is around 10% of the size of the IT function, and its budget is approximately 15% of IT’s. On the other hand, the global chemical manufacturer (example three) made a clear choice on the model: “delivery” for analytics and embedded in IT.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

But given tight travel budgets, the disruption to work and family, and the enormous carbon footprint associated with global travel, it’s not always feasible to give team members the opportunity to meet face-to-face. These findings suggest several things for allocating scarce travel budgets.

Globalization 8

Globalization Team Travel Budgeting 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Thinking Through the Strategies. by Hank Moore.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Understanding probabilities, statistics and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively managing high performing talent. The student teams, with budgets and other constraints, have to assemble and field the best-performing teams they can and justify their investments and trade. Fantasy Sports Competition.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

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. Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” ” Many traditional commodity or product-focused industries, such as mining, oil and gas, or chemicals, tend to focus on the volume of product purchased and shipped: tons, barrels, liters, etc.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” meeting a planned budget; 2.) The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Managers of the most effective teams encouraged adaptive ant colony behavior, while those of less effective innovation teams expected members to abide by rigid plans and rules. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. These are: 1.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). 4) Implement as many of the large bubbles on the upper right as your budget allows. . • Reconnect you and your employees to tangible output. 3) Make a bubble chart using this template to prioritize your activities.

ROE 13

ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Republicans care more about corporate tax rates, the national budget deficit, and regulation. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8