Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. manufacturing. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

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

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 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 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. He wasn't being glib. They don't want geeks and nerds undermining those relationships.

Innovation 11

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

But designing an efficient warning system is more complicated than it might appear. A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.” For context, there are more than 800 different hazardous chemicals listed in California at present.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been watching the global economy for decades, and it seems to me that growth in the United States is about to speed up, while growth in the emerging markets is slowing down. This makes the United States, for many chemical companies, the preferred place to manufacture. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As Carlos Tavares, chair of PSA Peugeot Citroën, explained to me, “Unit sales will remain important, but this shouldn’t be our driver… To be ready, we must experiment and learn as markets change.” They start in other markets, with other customers, or with stealth incursions into the edges of your market.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. 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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

In fact, among the 65 industries and almost 6,000 companies we studied across the globe, no industry had a TSR variation that was lower than 30 percentage points, and the variation in one industry, chemicals, was a whopping 206 percentage points. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The most successful teams, on the other hand, operated less like highly efficient machines and more like ant colonies. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. If there’s interest, they proceed with development; if not, they modify the idea or quietly withdraw it.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. The chance to make more people more valuable worldwide is a market opportunity that could and should prove bigger than bots.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. Distributed power generation is a well-known example.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. Redundancy is not efficient, but it does help you solve a wide range of unexpected problems. Any organization of any size can develop faster, more effective, cheaper solutions to problems by challenging its people. Redundancy.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. Financing the clean economy. Tough choices.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. Will we get better at valuing natural capital (and will companies and markets care)?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

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

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 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