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. For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

That is good news for managers and investors. While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. Profits are up.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 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. Water and energy are not typically priced to reflect their true scarcity, value, or costs. Find ways to value water and price carbon in all future investments.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

Company 9

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

How has Apple managed to maintain its stock price and convince investors of its growth potential? While the products might bring in steady revenues, the lack of any compelling market-creating offering has left Microsoft with a red-ocean heavy product portfolio—for which the company has paid a steep price.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Over the years, as LED technology has developed and become more popular, the cost of the lights has gone down so the price difference is not as great as it used to be. They are also recyclable and do not contain toxic chemicals such as mercury, unlike fluorescent lights. They Are More Efficient and Environmentally Friendly.

Chemicals 111

Chemicals Efficiency Energy Long-term 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. after chemicals). Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. incumbents. To produce radials, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets. Dual asymmetrical joint venture. Distributed power generation is a well-known example.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Were I advising aspiring top-tier universities — or their students on what they should expect from their high-priced education — the following classes would represent excellent starting points for fundamental curricular reform. Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science.

Class 8

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020.

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

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. The second phase was to attract and develop more local and international people.

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. You realize that the industrial efficiency of the Tyson chicken plant that results in pretty low prices is not going to be replicated at a friendly local organic farm.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.” Of course, this type of quantification is essential for business success.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In contrast, when Samsung and Sony were deciding whether to launch LED TVs, which offered better picture quality than plasma TVs at a slightly higher price, there was lower uncertainty about demand because customers were already buying TVs. Companies that excel at resolving technological uncertainty often develop a broader technology palette.

Uncertainty 20

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Despite lower oil prices, currency depreciations, higher taxes, and geopolitical uncertainty, the region is still rich in opportunities, from selling efficiency-enhancing technology to the Saudi government to offering Western products to 100 million Ethiopian consumers. This, combined with a population of 1.5 Product adaptation.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” This debate is happening because in Halliburton Co. John Fund, Inc. ,

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Trump Shocked the World.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8