LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. Clout is a very effective growth strategy for many organizations. Monsanto is a good example. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. Clout is a very effective growth strategy for many organizations. Monsanto is a good example. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. Clout is a very effective growth strategy for many organizations. Monsanto is a good example.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

That line of thinking shuts us down, puts us on the defensive, and narrows our possibilities to rescue operations. This brain circuitry — vital for working toward our goals — runs on dopamine, a feel-good brain chemical, along with endogenous opioids like endorphins, the “runner’s high” neurotransmitters.

Chemicals 19

Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. A chemical company identified seven key process performance measures for each of its seven "value chains." Also, process owners control IT budgets.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

Agricultural engineering students are more focused on IT than on learning to build next-generation farm machinery. You can master diesel engines and polymer technology, but without expertise in IT, few believe that you belong in the technology sector. Across most African universities, the only funded and active labs are the IT labs.

Information Technology 14

Information Technology Technology Information Trends 14

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?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Early generations drew from physics and engineering. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. These chemicals speed the shaping and hardening of the powder by a UV lamp. The new technologies are expanding the playbook into chemistry.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

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.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. I had an unlikely journey to the top. Born in India, I arrived in the U.S. Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. How did this happen? I was fortunate, to be sure.

Team 12

Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 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. Companies with more than 500 employees not only do 5.75

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. But that doesn’t square with reality. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As the senior HR executive in charge of managing overseas assignments, Anton Danois made a point of spending time with Streuvels Chemicals' expatriate employees and their families. But managing European chemical plants was what he knew best, not overseeing an international mobility department. Ana looked down into her tea.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

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. .: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems…Where Governments Cannot.).

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Thinking of her own cousin Guillermo Pombo, an engineer who had recently graduated from the University of Miami and was struggling to start his own business, Helena could see where Conrad was coming from. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. operations.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, some of these are low-paying, burger-flipper jobs.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected. ” At NASA, notes Rocha, “part of our engineering culture is that you work through your chain of command. I will regret always why I didn’t break down the door by myself.”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 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. Emotion Inspires Ongoing Development and Builds Community.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. They know my stuff. I’ve got friends. I’m connected.” This just happened. The good Lord has to remind me regularly.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. They know my stuff. I’ve got friends. I’m connected.” This just happened. The good Lord has to remind me regularly.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. That was the point of his famous requirement that every business had to be No.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

Although technology is central to the exponential and abundance mindsets, much of the sustainability world remains distracted by incremental improvements to incumbent technologies, ranging from gasoline-powered automobiles to energy- and chemical-intensive air-conditioning systems. To keep it to yourself runs the risk that it would die.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

A kluge — a term from the engineering and computer science world — refers to something that is convoluted and messy but gets the job done. The code in our automobiles is fantastically baroque, and in many cases may be too complex to understand. Think Rube Goldberg contraption meets MacGyver, but without the playfulness.

Construction 8

Construction Technology System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. With all of the changes and uncertainty, companies in a wide range of industries – from autos and chemicals to electronics and appliances – are moving quickly to rethink supply chains and make them more resilient. Census Bureau data.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. They are masters at re-engineering and creating new organizational ‘‘blueprints.’’. The change-catalyst: leadership as a turnaround activity.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14