Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm. Another way to enhance board engagement is to assign directors specific operational areas to engage on. Case in point: directors who tap their networks to source new hires.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 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. households spend 3% of annual electricity budgets on heating water to wash clothes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Finally comes Crisis Training.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

How to plan, how to budget, how to problem solve, how to organize a balance sheet. Just having people who can plan and budget and problem solve and organize? And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes. We’ll teach you how to do coffee.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

How to plan, how to budget, how to problem solve, how to organize a balance sheet. Just having people who can plan and budget and problem solve and organize? And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes. We’ll teach you how to do coffee.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Boosting engagement in wellness can only be achieved when workers own the program, understand how they and the company benefit, and are given a meaningful voice in its ongoing operation. This, of course, takes time and support. There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The most successful teams, on the other hand, operated less like highly efficient machines and more like ant colonies. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. Learning from failure may make your business more prepared for the disaster that has already happened, but it does nothing to prevent the disaster in the first place.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

372 billion : China's budget for energy conservation and anti-pollution measures over the next few years. Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994. A large consumer products company — which tells me it will be going public with this story very soon — has already cut carbon in its own operations by 80%.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. And China’s subsidy programs are anything but transparent: They are shielded by unpublished government budgets and directives and a law that allows commercial information to be treated as state secrets.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Republicans care more about corporate tax rates, the national budget deficit, and regulation.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8