Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. besides the military.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

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

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. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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. Model 1: Virtual operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. The processor: leadership as an exercise in efficiency.

Leadership 12

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 12

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. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Take a doctor’s office.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. The report also highlights efforts in the Middle East and North Africa to increase efficiencies and tap renewable energy sources in desalination plants.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast recalled to me, “Back in the early 2000s there were many things we wanted to accomplish with our online business but had a hard time doing because of the perception that we’d interfere with the well-oiled efficiency of the physical stores. ” A key word here is perception.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 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 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. The leaders will win by integrating these new valuations effectively into their processes, products, and services.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. Wachter wrote in 2011 , a consensus has developed among academics that fraud on the market is “not just flawed, second-best, misdirected, or in need of improvement, but flat-out senseless, mindless, and reasonless.”. Bratton and Michael L.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 8

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.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 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. Second, top-quartile companies operate more profitably than other companies.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Tapping into biology''s security database — which was developed by millions of species in response to extremely complex natural security problems — gives us first a wakeup call, then some practical guidance on how to keep our information secure. So how do we operate in an effectively open-source world without barriers?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. But learning waned as avoiding launch delays became increasingly important.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Redundancy is not efficient, but it does help you solve a wide range of unexpected problems. Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. Department of Defense now uses challenges to develop better weapons systems. Redundancy.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

All organizational levels must identify and solve problems, but senior managers must tell front-line workers why efficiency is critical at all times, and then help them remove waste and improve service to customers. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I).

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

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. It has developed sophisticated tools to help companies build and test the business case for action, or inaction.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

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