Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2023
Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2014
after chemicals). To produce radials, the U.S. giants basically needed to start their companies all over again — practically nothing of what they knew about producing bias-ply tires could be reused. Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S
Harvard Business Review
MAY 6, 2015
Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
DuPont was forced to dissolve its patent-pooling arrangements with foreign chemical firms and disgorge its cross-holdings in GM stock, devastating both its top and bottom lines. Business law Regulation Disruptive innovation Growth strategy Transportation'
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2011
Remember how after Chemical Bank launched the first Automated Teller Machine in the 1960s, waves of bank branches shut down? And remember when banks went online, how waves of local bank branches shut down? In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. This isn't unusual.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2016
” For Kodak, that’s the difference between framing itself as a chemical film company vs. an imaging company vs. a moment-sharing company. What new opportunities does the disruption open up? Our colleague Clark Gilbert described more than a decade ago a great irony of disruption.
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