Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

The best part about it is how diverse the field is – a mixture of engineering, science, computer programming, and hands-on fabrication trade skills all centered around simple trigonometric equations – it’s mostly triangles. HVAC - Heating and Air. Can also go into “Data Scientist” roles.

Career 192

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

CO2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

How could an organization achieve diversity that engages your wider talents ? How does your brain’s chemical and electrical circuitry wire you for winning? Ellen developed and enhanced the MITA method through work with faculty and business leaders in the High Arctic, Ireland, Canada, Caribbean, U.S., UK, Chile and Mexico.

Chemicals 79

Chemicals Innovation Learning-by-Doing Motivation 79

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. They tend to frame gender as one diversity dimension among many. What will success look like?

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere.

Globalization 14

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. As Andy Zynga argued in an earlier post , diversity is a means to overcome the cognitive biases that prevent people from seeing new approaches or engaging them when found. Creativity Diversity Innovation'

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. 100 COACHES.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

Team 12

Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

We also find that companies in developed areas plan to hire in other developed regions (e.g., North America in Western Europe and vice versa) and many countries in developing regions are moving into developed regions (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Asia into North America). Methodology.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Overall, directors from both sides are bringing diverse strengths to the table. Why does all this matter?

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Corporate cultures where diversity and openness thrive will more likely attract top talent, especially young, creative, and entrepreneurial candidates. We strive to embrace customers of all ethnic backgrounds, ages, races, faith traditions, genders and lifestyles through the products we sell and the content of our marketing."

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

For example, at FedEx (#20), the company actively assists executives in moving between functions in order to accumulate a diverse range of experiences that improve their overall adaptability. At Dow Chemicals (#19), risk-taking is not only accepted, it is encouraged, which helps the company to stay agile and innovative.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

After a successful career as a corporate consultant, he became the Director of Economic Development for Rhode Island, a cabinet level position, where he saw the opportunity to put his ideas into action and create innovation at scale. This can only be done by applying a third principle: we must balance cohesiveness with diversity.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Here's how Sophie described it: I don't understand why R&D kills so many of my projects when I am supposedly measured on new product development! To make matters worse, they vacillated wildly in those decisions, rarely explaining them and never consulting with the team.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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

APRIL 6, 2016

It wasn’t until 1939, a decade later, that two chemists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain , came across Fleming’s paper, immediately understood its significance, and developed a method to produce penicillin in quantity. Great innovation happens when a diverse set of skills are integrated to effectively solve problems.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Starbucks, for example, has a strong presence because CEO Howard Schultz, deliberately developed a growth plan grounded in its capabilities.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

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? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. HR strategy is an expertise that takes years to fully develop.”.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

” Because of the diversity of buyer self-sufficiency, the traditional methods sellers use to customize their selling approach for customers are no longer enough. ” Understanding specialty chemicals customers: “Big data and analytics help us improve customer targeting and achieve more cost-effective deployment.”

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

That’s just the beginning of the confusion—even if you accepted that such diverse investments should all be grouped into one category, how do you even measure and compare impact anyway? Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In True North Groups , Bill and Doug provide an extremely insightful and practical roadmap for how you can create your own ecosystem for mutual support, feedback, development, and, ultimately, lifelong learning collaborators. What other resources have you found useful in developing this system? It is a very timely book.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We developed an analytic tool—the Pioneer-Migrator-Settler Map—to address precisely that challenge and, as we discuss in the new Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition , its beauty is that it can be applied dynamically over time to shift the trajectory of a company’s profitable growth prospects.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I). Companies as diverse as GE and Edelman faced some hard questions about their deep ties to the fossil fuel industry this year (ok, some of those questions were from me ).

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8