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

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Moreover, techniques that we have developed with several retailers over the last few years show that analytics are providing retailers a tremendous opportunity to improve revenues and profits. The technique that Ramnath Vaidyanathan and I developed answers these questions. What are the right metrics to use in clustering stores?

Planning 12

Planning Retail Chemicals Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

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. Even when regulators try to reduce prices, firms can benefit.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

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. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In contrast, the capitalization of NOW, the former commerce unit of National Oilwell Varco, has been much less affected by the recent oil price collapse, which reflects the investor community’s confidence in the spin-off’s ability to prosper on its own. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 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 80

Chemicals Efficiency Energy Long-term 80

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. Companies usually find that a set of four to 10 peer groups is a manageable number.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Instead, we make jet turbines, helicopters, sophisticated airliners and business jets, electric generators, radar, chemicals and plastics, satellites, and all kinds of weapons. This makes the United States, for many chemical companies, the preferred place to manufacture. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 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. Or the economic cycle may suddenly turn and thus make it impossible to divest an activity as planned at a fair price. Go for the occasional mega-acquisition.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Most of its sales are in the developing world (including 40% in Africa) — where it sells its HIV drugs for about $350 per year per patient — yet it is as profitable as the pharma giants of Europe, North America, and Japan. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

Company 11

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

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

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, Tesco uses vast data sets culled from decades of customers' Clubcard use to make pricing decisions, influence shoppers to buy specific items, and build loyalty. Leading proponents of this approach use the data-talks-to-data concept developed by IBM's Jeff Jonas and his team in the Entity Analytics group.

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

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

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

However, outside North America they tend to be more optimistic about emerging economies: 36% of directors in Asia, 24% of directors in Australia and New Zealand, and 23% of directors in Africa predict faster growth in emerging economies than in developed countries in the next three years.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 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. They also took an equity stake in ASML of 15%, 5%, and 3%, respectively.

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 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

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

JUNE 15, 2016

They don’t have as much as experience with USDA inspection procedures and their own internal inspection systems may not be as well-developed and operationally as reliable as those at the Tysons of the world. You should not, as a small supplier or as a regional restaurant, feel as though you have to develop the food testing internally.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Declaration itself is directional and not as specific as what Ceres and a subset of these signatories advocate for as part of BICEP’s work (like pricing carbon and aggressive energy efficiency programs). But most of these are “shadow prices,” in use for years, not actual fees.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

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

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. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

But company coalitions aren’t just issuing reports — they’re making promises in line with the rapidly improving economics of renewable energy (which utilities can now obtain in many regions at prices below fossil fuels ). Offering these unloved items in juices or as-is for 30% off has been a big winner for the company.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

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 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

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 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. the EU, and Japan have agreed to develop “joint action” on China’s subsidies. negotiators.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 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

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. As prices dropped, companies noticed, and corporate purchases and commitments to clean energy grew.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8