Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. Some of these try to identify certain recurring behavior patterns considered more or less effective in a leadership context.

Leadership 12

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking. Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. Consider the case of a chemicals company. Companies usually find that a set of four to 10 peer groups is a manageable number.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. Take a doctor’s office.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. Should sweeteners like these be explicitly broken out in innovation budgets?

Innovation 11

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

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.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

When we perceive a threat, the amygdala sounds an alarm, releasing a cascade of chemicals in the body. We are in the grip of a highly efficient, but prehistoric set of physiological responses. ” Each time we succeed in being mindful of our body in moments of distress, we develop our capacity.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Stress System Goleman 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Declaration itself is directional and not as specific as what Ceres and a subset of these signatories advocate for as part of BICEP’s work (like pricing carbon and aggressive energy efficiency programs). Executives at Unilever credit their ranking to the company’s known leadership on sustainability.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 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. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8