Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They have gone beyond the anecdotes that so often characterize discussions of patent reform and have studied in detail just how patents function, what incentives they create, and how the system could function better. If I create a pill that has the same chemical compound as Merck's Gardasil, then I am infringing on their patent.

Innovation 12

Innovation Chemicals Incentives Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

The key resources were owned by another function that was not involved in the process and had no incentives to lend the resources. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses. The inevitable lack of concrete progress degraded the collaborative innovation back to a short-term sales effort.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Second, thanks to the minimal degradation of quality, there is a super-clean label (meaning the product will have few chemical-sounding, unpronounceable ingredients) and an incentive to add high-quality ingredients. Third, the food remains packaged at room temperature, and remains safe to eat for months on end.

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

The assumption is that, under the current incentive system, they're highly inefficient in their use of expense money, so we'll give them less to work with than they've been getting reimbursed for.". "I Tania Temple paid for the CEO of Shelston Chemicals and his whole entourage to spend the day at a NASCAR event.

P&L 12

P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. 2 Chemical Company, were very active.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. This is because many traditional incentive programs are grounded on the assumption that people will behave in certain rational ways if paid to do so.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

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. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does. In the guitar business , too.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

companies receive more than half of their annual pay value in long-term incentive — typically equity — compensation. In Europe, that long-term incentive makes up roughly one-third of the pay. For long-term incentive plans, the dominant measure is total shareholder return (TSR). bonus plans, according to our research.

TSR 10

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The opportunity is to remove incentives for free-riding within industries where a firm might take advantage of another firm’s efforts in addressing a social or environmental issue. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

A chemical company identified seven key process performance measures for each of its seven "value chains." For example give the process owner access to senior leaders, involvement in all major and monthly review meetings, budget control, a powerful title, and a say in rewards and incentives for managers.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

First, from a neurochemical perspective, Dr. Eytan emphasizes that our brains are more relaxed during walks due to the release of certain chemicals. Naming a point of interest, he says, provides more rationale and incentive for others to go for a walk. Eytan, whose office is located in Washington, D.C.,

How To 8

How To Cost-Benefit Analysis Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

A public commitment to such an effort creates an incentive to follow through. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants. What did that mean? First, the owner-manager firms were not possible. Second, none of these people liked risk.

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” Many traditional commodity or product-focused industries, such as mining, oil and gas, or chemicals, tend to focus on the volume of product purchased and shipped: tons, barrels, liters, etc. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers. Unit sales don’t.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Use the right incentives. In all, four workers were killed. .”

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

” Understanding specialty chemicals customers: “Big data and analytics help us improve customer targeting and achieve more cost-effective deployment.” Here are examples from several industries. Finding banking customers: “Social media allows us to cost-effectively reach out to more prospects and showcase our services.”

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” Peter was amused to see Emanuel struggle with the description of his sophisticated research instruments as “machines” and his vast array of chemical and biological consumables as analogous to disposable razor blades. ” “And also created a moral hazard,” Peter said.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For instance, Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund provides finance to farmers whose cultivation practices are more sustainable in places like the Palestine Territories, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic, avoiding traditional chemically-intensive fertilizer in delicate ecosystems.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

So when the first little inklings appeared that there may be a shift from battery cassette players to solid state rechargeable digital music archives like the iPod, your incentive was not to embrace that reality but to eke out another quarter or two doing what you were already doing. It’s much more common than it used to be.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50