Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. This sort of collaboration has been well-documented in the B2C context (where it’s often called “crowdsourcing” or “co-creation”), but we see it in B2B companies as well.

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B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation. Search and explore the documents below. Marc Benioff. Richard Branson.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In a new paper that’s already generated much discussion, economists Ian Hathaway of Ennsyte Economics and Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution document four decades of “ Declining Business Dynamism in the United States.” Yet now it is clearly faltering. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

The earth overshoot day , which documents how many resources the earth can resupply in a given year, is getting shorter. Businesses in all industries must take note and must take action, and with these top innovations leading the way the future is indeed looking brighter. The Rise of Sustainable Innovation. Pineapple Fabric.

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Innovation Fashion Chemicals Environment 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption. Innovation Strategy' To produce radials, the U.S. Long story short, Michelin took over 50% of the entire tire U.S. Refrigerators replaced ice boxes.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

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. Provide metadata, APIs / SDKs , and documentation enabling multiple teams of multiple selves to productively collaborate.

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. ” For Kodak, that’s the difference between framing itself as a chemical film company vs. an imaging company vs. a moment-sharing company.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem. This elusive component is something that behavioral economists are beginning to document.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Their study revealed that immigrants have made a disproportionate contribution to innovation in the U.S. are incredibly productive and innovative, and they’re disproportionately contributing to innovation in our society,” the researchers explain. The researchers’ findings were not merely quantitative. “The

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Innovation Diversity Chemicals Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also advise companies to use business process management software to map and document process flows and how work should be executed and to monitor performance. Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Before I turned to writing and starting an incubator, my last traditional office job was leading growth and innovation at a Fortune 100 company. Kill unnecessary document preparation. Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). One page will do for most internal meetings.

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ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 13

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.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I).

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13