Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. To begin, each of our partners has shared documentation of work they are doing to improve the future sustainability of their company. Search and explore the documents below. by Forest L.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

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. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company. This happens more often than you might think.

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B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Require networked KPI dashboards for multiple selves management and oversight.

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Answer These 5 Questions Think of your boss — your direct supervisor or manager — and consider each statement below. After dinner, CEO and co-founder Ari Weinzweig or one his managing partners will present on a particular topic, such as visioning, open book management, or the natural laws of business.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” Discovery-driven planning has since become a staple in business schools’ entrepreneurship curricula and a go-to technique for those who manage innovation. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Since then, they have taught the concepts to thousands of students and managers.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

As has been documented in Fortune , former directors of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia Bank resurfaced in no time on other corporate boards like Verizon, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, and Nike. Few have suffered consequences and virtually all continue to lead the good life.

Ethics 11

Ethics Chemicals Short-term Report 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). After all, technologies don’t dictate how they must be commercialized, managers do. 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. Gas lamps gave way to incandescent lamps.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry 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 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? We need a much broader and deeper understanding of the role of board and senior management in a large, complex corporation.

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Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Kill unnecessary document preparation. Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). I can't guarantee this look will scream Gordon Gekko, but it might take one chin off your chin. Have 15-minute standup meetings instead of those insufferable hour-long snooze-fests.

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ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 14