Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. I’m going to create an opportunity. Don’t you think?

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The company has made increasing commitments to renewable energy as part of its aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals (30% by 2020). KP is buying both carbon offsets and significant onsite energy — 11 megawatts of solar and 4 megawatts of fuel cell generation, for example. Why are they doing so much on renewable energy?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Paul Hill – Former Director of Mission Operations NASA. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Sustainability expert Andrew Winston delivered a keynote, and was joined on the panel by David Walker, director of environmental sustainability at PepsiCo, and David Struhs , strategy VP at C3, a company whose analytics are helping the likes of Dow and Pacific Gas and Electric optimize their energy use.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. besides the military.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. Without secure energy and a stable climate, we won’t be able to make meaningful progress on other challenges — like connecting the world. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. And at Harvard Business Review, we want to lead a discussion about how to make that happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

How much energy do you have at work? Either way, the reason might be your coworkers: They are infecting you with their energy, positive or negative. We “catch” energy through our interactions with people – something called “relational energy”— and it affects our performance at work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. The current corporate entity is comprised of firms that used to be called: King Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth, American Cyanamid, Lederle, Pharmacia, Upjohn, Searle, SUGEN, Warner-Lambert, Parke-Davis and others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million.

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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. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In 2015, it had been one of Wall Street’s most favored alternative energy companies. ” Its capabilities as a semiconductor company fit naturally with photovoltaics, but did not naturally translate to its new wind energy, battery, and construction/installation businesses. .” In April 2016, it filed for bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This will lead to significant gaps in areas such as engineering, petrol-chemicals, utilities, defense manufacturing, education, healthcare, and air traffic control. Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. and European line of cold-water detergents that require 50% less energy than warm water washing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Dow Chemical Company, for example, needs to assess costs and risks every time it considers a site for a new manufacturing facility. Johnson Controls has 170,000 employees and specializes in optimizing the energy and operational efficiency of buildings. It’s why I chose the subtitle of my new book: A Better World, Inc.:

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Daisuke Kan, the 30-year-old COO of a beverages company, Cheerio Corporation, was desperate to send free cans of an energy drink, Life Guard, to places where people lacked water and food. Masterminding several of these initiatives is a group of people in their 30s and early 40s.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. The Neurochemical Signature of Leadership There is such a thing as a hormonal make up of successful leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We developed dozens of new innovation ideas with managers in the company but the board, though initially enthusiastic, never took the time and energy to engage with the projects, directing their attention on day-to-day operational issues instead. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

For example, Marijn Dekkers, who served as the CEO of Bayer, is also the chair of Unilever, an independent director on GE’s board, president of the German Chemical Industry Association, and vice president of the Federation of German Industry. Most boards have strong cultures that promote deference to the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Joe Nigro, CEO of energy company Constellation, told me, “Everyone needs to know how each metric fits into the big picture…why and how we’re measuring something, and how it’s relevant to performance.” I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But our 14 million workers, thanks to the machines they operate and the smart, disciplined way in which they work, produce about the same amount of stuff, measured in dollar terms, as China’s 100-plus million factory workers, according to a 2009 study by the BLS. As that continues, vigorous rates of job growth will resume.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2012

If you are a leader, you must not allow them to operate under you. They drain energy. The embalming fluid of business is no mere chemical concoction dreamed up by heartless analysts. As a leader you should try to reform the bully—attempt to make a human connection that explains why people deserve respect.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Conrad was juggling too many other pursuits to take an executive position at the time, but he agreed to help her and serve on the board, and his ideas, energy, and fearlessness contributed to the organization’s success in attracting dedicated people and money. operations. It didn’t have U.S. ” Guillermo had a point.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

. “In Navy SEAL training,” former SEAL Commander Curt Cronin recently told us, “the leadership cadre designs situations that are exponentially more stressful, chaotic, and dynamic than any combat operation so that the teams learn to center [themselves] in the most arduous circumstances. ” Step Three: Use It.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Finally comes Crisis Training.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Boosting engagement in wellness can only be achieved when workers own the program, understand how they and the company benefit, and are given a meaningful voice in its ongoing operation. This, of course, takes time and support. There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.”

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