Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. The economics of the “New Economy” could be described at a high level: Digital technology would cause a reduction in the cost of search and communication. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center.

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. In the early 1920s, as a result of a growing market for Idrolitina, Gazzoni decided to automate the packaging process.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Interpreting their meaning and the motivation behind them requires what he calls a "thick" understanding that comes from detailed observation of people's interactions and their environment. This was not a huge surprise — any report can tell you the rising percentage of technology ownership among families in emerging markets.

Trends 15

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. It’s not sustainable. Literally ran to this guy.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. It’s not sustainable. Literally ran to this guy.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But as these resources become scarcer and more expensive, we need to find new ways to create a more sustainable environment. In his speech at COP21 European Union Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs, and Fisheries Karmenu Vella stressed the need to switch to a more circular economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

The technology ecosystem known as the internet of real-time data is moving us toward a better understanding of what these consumers are thinking and doing. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances. What about cash customers? Casual browsers?

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. As more and more firms copy each others' best practices, many of the remaining critical elements of the business environment are determined by governments.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

. “The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” And yet we have a canon of research and experience telling us that while mistakes always happen, it’s the environment in which they occur that really makes the difference. .”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it?

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history. Marketing Strategy' Yet that’s exactly the problem.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. So in this quarterly-earnings-obsessed world, it’s a brave and unusual move. And it’s also good business.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. DAMCO, the multi-billion dollar Logistics division of AP Moller Maersk, has taken a different peer tact: utilizing team-based learning that starts with identifying solutions to critical market opportunities and threats.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership covers a lot of ground. A deep shift in energy markets, including the agreement’s goals on making the grid more flexible and resilient, will change how utilities and energy companies need to operate. Gigawatts of wind and solar last year.

Energy 8

Energy Price Cooper Commitment 8