HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

The impact of the labor shortage is being felt in many industries, including agriculture, construction, and healthcare. For example, Sumitomo Chemical, a prominent Japanese company, has gradually raised its retirement age from 60 to 65 with full pay.

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Crisis Chemicals Policies Trends 52

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety. If you’re an existing business, it’s not too late to turn things around, however, as Danish energy company Ørsted did when it rebranded from DONG when it focused on wind power and renewable energy.

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Cooper Long-term Politics Energy 97

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Indeed, technology can perform the trial-and-error that has remained the bedrock of human discovery on an industrial scale. The organisation is typically done along the physical and chemical properties of the material that are most of interest to material scientists themselves.

Chemicals 59

Chemicals Proposal Team Emotional Intelligence 59

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The gender wage gap is pervasive in many industries, especially those still dominated by men. It is a fast growing field and attracts a lot of entrepreneurs and innovators. They are basically designers and can specialise in civil, chemical, electrical, computer, and mechanical fields. Physician Assistants .

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Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Operations Resources Management 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

If that’s the kind of shift coming to the food industry, change leaders and corporate strategists will have their hands full. To prevent that, the industry needs to stop putting Band-Aids on a major bleed-out, and instead make a decision to amputate through ruthless portfolio strategy. Reducing spoilage could reduce food waste.

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Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Collaborative innovation is a hot topic in the B2C space, where it overlaps with crowdsourcing, but we see B2B players taking an interest as well. Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What they found is that America's patent system only provides positive incentives for innovation in two industries: pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Anyone innovating outside of those two industries would be better off if there were no patent system at all.

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Innovation Chemicals Incentives Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

In his 2008 book Patent Failure , Bessen and co-author Michael Meurer argue that after taking the cost of litigation into account, the effect of patenting in all industries except pharmaceuticals and chemicals was to reduce the profitability of innovation rather than to increase it. Innovation Technology'

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Innovation Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Software 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Intelligence should drive better innovation, but unless it is strategically collected and used, it functions like a summer beach novel — an engaging distraction. Thoughtful companies intertwine customer intelligence throughout the three phases that characterize most successful innovations. Want more intelligent innovation?

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Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 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. For one thing, most industries just don’t have many new startups, period.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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. The Climate Corporation chose to focus on agriculture given the size of the industry and the fact that adverse weather conditions are a leading cause of crop failure.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. And the New York Times recently ran an editorial by Steven Rattner entitled “The Myth of Industrial Rebound.”. Clear winners are chemicals and petrochemicals (e.g.,

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 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. The major innovation lay in an extraordinary machine already in use in Lucca, about 150 kilometers southwest of Bologna.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. These industries comprise, in effect, a “rent seeking sector.”

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem? Industrial Revolution.”

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Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Producing biologics involves enough biochemistry, chemical engineering, and cell biology to make a graduate student wince. Manufacturing provides the foundation for many kinds of innovations.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes China's largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai. VW: Tooling up for sustainability ". And on and on.

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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company. Collaboration Innovation' This is not always the case in attempts to collaborate.

B2B 8

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai. And on and on. In the U.S.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S after chemicals). And the Akron Ohio-based bias-ply tire manufacturing industry, which by 1920 had produced more millionaires than Silicon Valley has produced until just recently, essentially vanished.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. They find that higher-valued industrial innovation (by its nature also riskier) is more likely to arise when diverse teams are assembled of people with deep subject matter expertise in their areas.

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Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

While there are numerous factors in such a massive shift away from business formation, one of the most powerful has to be the consolidation of multiple economic sectors toward a handful of firms with hegemonic power over their industry. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Many industries have been ripe for deal-making for some years, but action has been slow. Big mergers in other industries have also been costly — DaimlerChrysler , AOL-Time Warner , Boston Scientific-Guidant , and Citicorp-Travelers , to name a few. The opportunity for big mergers may also be drying up in many industries.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Businesses in all industries must take note and must take action, and with these top innovations leading the way the future is indeed looking brighter. The Rise of Sustainable Innovation. Sustainable innovation has arisen for two main reasons: Public Awareness. Top Sustainable Innovations to Be Aware Of.

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Innovation Fashion Chemicals Environment 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. Encouraging sweeping innovation, Andrew Winston noted at the meeting, requires asking " heretical questions," questions that demand non-obvious answers. David Struhs, of C3, similarly highlighted this holistic perspective.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. Haier’s engine for growth developed over years; it is the heart of the company’s identity.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Some have decades of experience in their industry. But there is another way to tackle these problems and find meaning in work. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services. And understanding the why is critical to innovation. It misses the "thick" understanding that is critical to meaningful innovation. It reveals what people do, but not why they do it.

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Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many IT organizations, having achieved this original mission, now are turning to the next thing, which is innovation. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation. The data and analytics function is completely independent from corporate IT. The stand-alone data and analytics service function.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8