Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. There’s $12 trillion in business opportunities for solving sustainability challenges. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Finally, on rare occasions, you may offer a truly disruptive product or service — one that redefines your industry, as genetic engineering of plants redefined the agricultural chemicals industry and music streaming redefined recorded music. The engine of growth is inherent in the company, not any one product or service.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. There are frameworks emerging and opportunities for companies to work with others to understand the value of water relating to reputation and operational continuity.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 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. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. “Look at sustainability as part of your business model; don’t look at it as a side initiative.”

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. Business models. In 1944, the bed strangled him.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity"). Its Common Threads campaign/business model questions consumption at its core.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. Strategy Business models' Both companies had been attractive acquisition targets for Scherr.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Given that some of these problems are rooted in people’s tendency to resist change, do newer firms have an advantage when it comes to creating the best new business models? Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. What makes one business model more attractive than another?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). It’s hard out there if you’re a utility.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13