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 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 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States. Helena had dreamed of starting a nonprofit that would seek out, mentor, and support high-potential entrepreneurs in Latin America. And yet her instinct was to oppose the idea.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. And again, both entrepreneurs and educators will have to share the responsibility.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 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. In developing countries, women spend 25% of their day collecting water and 40 hours per month collecting fuel for their families.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. Rather, it has developed an entirely new business model to profitably exploit a new, superior technology. Most entrepreneurs still think that just because their technology is superior it will inevitably be widely adopted in the marketplace.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

One of the areas where I think Bill has unique insight has to do with how leaders and entrepreneurs can build support structures. The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

I developed these ideas during seminars with executives where we discussed their experiences of good and bad management. To the "widespread astonishment" of the business world, he traded in the company's valuable holding in chemical giant Du Pont in order to buy up Universal Studios.

Management 16

Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.” Unit sales don’t.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

After spending the better part of an hour on the phone with an entrepreneur a friend of mine had asked me to advise, there was no talk of how he could return the favor — he barely coughed up a thank you. I'd just hung up the phone, dismayed. There's an economic case to be made for his behavior. Glaser , and the author of Creating We.

Career 9

Career Short-term Chemicals Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

He said: "What it will change is North Carolina's ability to keep businesses, attract new jobs, and attract and keep talented entrepreneurs." Former President Bill Clinton emphasized this point with a message to North Carolinians earlier this year, urging them to vote against the state's proposed ban same-sex marriage.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17

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. American Express has developed “Small Business Saturday.” The contrast is stark.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8