Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 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. 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

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. Are there objectives that require analytics or data combined from different business functions? Data and analytics embedded in IT.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). When the world is filled with cascading style sheets, XML, Erlang, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, Objective C, C++, Java, SQL, etc, "coding" becomes a misnomer. Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Until recently, autonomous driving was limited to highly controlled environments such as warehouses and factories where programmers could anticipate the range of scenarios a vehicle may encounter, and could program if-then-else-type decision algorithms accordingly (e.g., “If an object approaches the vehicle, then slowdown”).

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Now robots are everywhere — but they are also an object of confusion. thanks to its highly technical metal and chemical industries. At last, the computers Solow and everyone else saw around them had become visible in the statistics. It just took a while. Well, here we go again.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The objective? One way to temper the impact of stock price on CEO pay value is to reduce the use of TSR in driving potential two-times payouts in performance-vested share plans, and to consider replacing a portion of the equity with long-term plans that pay out in cash.

TSR 10

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf says her challenge in dealing with scientists, academics, businesspeople, community activists and policy wonks "is always, 'How do I speak in the same language to each of these different constituencies each with their unique language and objectives?'". I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I studied cross-functional teams in industries including communications, software, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agricultural, chemical, manufacturers, retail, utility, consulting, internet software, government, insurance, and banking. Teams should have the project’s success as their main objective.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

A few years ago, a Google deep learning network was shown 10 million unlabeled images from YouTube, and proved to be nearly twice as accurate at identifying the objects in the images (cats, human faces, flowers, various species of fish, and thousands of others) as any previous method. And its efforts have borne fruit.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

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. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

This strategy is set up to map to the Saudi government’s 2030 program and its National Transformation Plan , one objective of which is improved public sector efficiency. And 45% said that they need to bring new innovations into Sub-Saharan Africa to support their strategic objectives in the next three years.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9