Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

It is critical to ensure cultural compatibility between the insiders and the new hires, and to bind them together into a cohesive group with fully aligned objectives. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. The unit has fewer than 100 people divided among data science/analytics, technology, and social media.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

That’s our version of a scientific hypothesis – “If I lead a person THIS way, this person will react to it in THAT way, and they will make their expected contribution to the overall company objectives&# It’s quite a challenge, because that process has to be repeated for each member of the team. Popularity: 1% [ ?

Chemicals 222

Chemicals Leadership Blog Comparison 222

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In both cases participants read about a new medication that boosts immune function and reduces occurrence of the common cold, ostensibly developed by a large pharmaceutical company. Graphs have a scientific halo—we associate them with science and objectivity. million dollars. The likely reason? What is the graph telling you?

Press Release 8

Press Release Participative Pharmaceuticals Chemicals 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). When the world is filled with cascading style sheets, XML, Erlang, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, Objective C, C++, Java, SQL, etc, "coding" becomes a misnomer. Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Another example would be the Calvert Foundation’s Women Investing in Women Initiative , which allows individual investors to make loans to women in developing markets to access clean energy.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. Teams should have the project’s success as their main objective.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Yet this type of rhetoric undermines another core objective of vision communication: providing clarity about the future. Leaders must communicate strategies for growth that employees can clearly envision. Instead of invoking abstract ideals, the most effective leaders communicate their visions using image-based words.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

A few years ago, a Google deep learning network was shown 10 million unlabeled images from YouTube, and proved to be nearly twice as accurate at identifying the objects in the images (cats, human faces, flowers, various species of fish, and thousands of others) as any previous method. And its efforts have borne fruit.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 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. These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

This strategy is set up to map to the Saudi government’s 2030 program and its National Transformation Plan , one objective of which is improved public sector efficiency. And 45% said that they need to bring new innovations into Sub-Saharan Africa to support their strategic objectives in the next three years.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Directors are also consistent in their views of the key challenges to achieving their companies’ strategic objectives: attracting and retaining top talent, the regulatory environment, and domestic competitive threats top the list for directors from both parties. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8