Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

Given the unusual circumstances placed upon them, it’s perhaps no surprise that technology is playing a major part in the re-opening. A good example comes from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, who have developed a robot to try and ensure spaces are kept as clean as possible.

Banking 84

Banking Environment Chemicals System 84

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. 2 Chemical Company, were very active.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? We’ll teach you our technology. And in the end, leadership development and character development are one.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Ben: Well today’s about servant leadership and of course, that ties a lot into influential leadership. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? We’ll teach you our technology. And in the end, leadership development and character development are one.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

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. This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted.

Team 12

Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Campbell, Accenture's Group Chief Executive, Technology, notes, "All too often, I've seen that personal conflicts derail costly projects and important initiatives." Hence, "bad blood" is less likely to develop between co-workers. Employee conflicts can be poisonous. As Kevin M.

Team 15

Team Management How To Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Pursuing a sustainability agenda is a natural extension of our mission, because it means making sure that the communities we serve are healthy and resilient.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. “Then, 17 years later, we have the Columbia explosion.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. There are, of course, exceptions — and other companies can learn from them. .” Man-Wai Chow is leading the strategic intelligence efforts at Eastman, a chemical company.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Every successful conglomerate we know of — GE, Honeywell, Tata and United Technologies Corporation among them — has prospered by doing two things. Of course, the very diversity that defines a conglomerate makes it hard to enforce the discipline of coherence. But that probably won't work. There is no universal answer.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Of course, there are many concerns over how they treat animals at their plants. You should not, as a small supplier or as a regional restaurant, feel as though you have to develop the food testing internally. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. ” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Of course, he knew that the reality at headquarters was different.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). The greening of the supply chain. But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. American Express has developed “Small Business Saturday.” While digital technology can empower social initiatives, they are essentially human endeavors. Yet that’s exactly the problem.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8