Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 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. Potential innovation benefits are literally not worth it. Money can change everything.

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Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services. But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence." And understanding the why is critical to innovation. It reveals what people do, but not why they do it. A Wink or a Twitch?

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Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

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. Personalized analytics become mirrors and lenses for refocusing professional effectiveness. But why stop with industrial assets?

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. Through regular dialogue with stakeholders and continual iteration , a company with a sustainability agenda is better positioned to anticipate and react to economic, social, environmental, and regulatory changes as they arise.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” But companies will need new positions as well.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

A good example comes from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, who have developed a robot to try and ensure spaces are kept as clean as possible. The cleaning process itself places workers at risk of catching the virus. Keeping it clean.

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Banking Environment Chemicals System 84

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. The horizontal axis (“impact”) tracks the spectrum of outcomes created by business, from negative to positive.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

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 started by relocating some key positions around the world, staffed by other nationalities.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 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. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.). They will create an advantage through superior execution.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon was also slow to develop quality-control systems in manufacturing (thus the unfortunate pants), with fewer than 30 employees overseeing 90% of the 30 million units of clothing per year. After former Starbucks executive Christine Day was named CEO, Wilson also faced a passionate-founder''s crisis: He didn''t know what to do.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. If it is positive, it’s thumbs up, if it’s negative, it’s thumbs down. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. Let me explain.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

And 45% said that they need to bring new innovations into Sub-Saharan Africa to support their strategic objectives in the next three years. The Kenyan general manager then continued to oversee the partners’ skills development and to monitor their progress as part of quarterly business reviews.

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Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve already mentioned the historic Paris agreement, but there are more positive steps worth noting. 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. days of innovation).

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8