LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I agree that balance is key.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At first, I think leadership is a chemical results of all features of a person. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I couldn’t agree with you more, MJ, that leadership really is a lot of this and that.

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Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. If CEOs are going to operate for stakeholder value — rather than just for shareholder value — then their pay ought to be structured in a way that supports them doing so. Today, U.S. executive pay is structured for the latter.

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TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The topic of climate change has become so politicized, it's rare to hear company representatives and CEOs admit that they're taking a course of action specifically in response to a climate-related threat. This health care leader is showing how an authentic, mission-driven connection to global issues can drive change.

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Health Care Operations Supply Chain GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father, Jaya Tan, retired three years ago as the CEO of our family''s business, the Martapura Group, relinquishing control to a nonfamily CEO to ensure that the company would regain its strength and grow. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. Family Friction.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. CEO Ellen Kullman came to see me and promised a top to bottom review of the DuPont safety program.

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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

We’ve enlisted prominent thinkers and leading CEOs who understand that sustainable business practices are in a company’s long-term interests. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Chairman & CEO, Salesforce. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. CEO & President, Walmart.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem. Emotion Inspires Ongoing Development and Builds Community.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 12

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. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Model 1: Virtual operator. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. 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.”

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures. Opportunities at the highest levels, including C-suite and CEO, must be open to people of all national origins. New methods for developing global leaders.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure." Heineman, Jr.

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Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

We recently discussed some of these tensions with board members and executives at Prium, a New York-based forum for CEOs (in which McKinsey participates). Maggie Wilderotter, chairman and CEO of Frontier Communications (and a member of the boards of P&G and Xerox) stresses that “it’s not just about the meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

One of the key functions of a board of directors is to oversee the CEO to ensure that shareholders are getting the most out of their investment. Most boards have strong cultures that promote deference to the CEO. Many directors have similarly demanding positions at firms other than the one they serve as a director.

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

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.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies I’ve come to know over the last 30 years share the same dream. Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients. They focus on integration.

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 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. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

With Japan's big corporations, several young CEOs were among the first to launch programs to help people in the affected areas. For example, Tamihito Takshima, the 36-year-old CEO of Win Roader, a family-owned recycling logistics business, immediately launched a Heart-to-Heart project to deliver goods to the people in the affected areas.

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Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

LEVINE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear from the beginning that building a sustainable future is foundational to Facebook’s mission of bringing the world closer together. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. A chemical company identified seven key process performance measures for each of its seven "value chains." Also, process owners control IT budgets.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Dow Chemical Company, for example, needs to assess costs and risks every time it considers a site for a new manufacturing facility. Johnson Controls has 170,000 employees and specializes in optimizing the energy and operational efficiency of buildings. It’s why I chose the subtitle of my new book: A Better World, Inc.:

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Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Joe Nigro, CEO of energy company Constellation, told me, “Everyone needs to know how each metric fits into the big picture…why and how we’re measuring something, and how it’s relevant to performance.” I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

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Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 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.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Starbucks, for example, has a strong presence because CEO Howard Schultz, deliberately developed a growth plan grounded in its capabilities. It stretches itself (in part through acquisitions of complementary fitness-app companies like MyFitnessPal and Endomondo), but it does not get ahead of its capacity to realize its ambitions.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In early April, following the news of faulty ignition switches and recall of more than 6 million cars, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a “Speak Up for Safety” program. “GM ” It’s telling, as the AP reported yesterday , that the director of vehicle safety at GM was four rungs down from the CEO prior to the recall.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8