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. And as customers use Blast IQ and contribute more of their own data, over time, the company will have a large enough dataset to train more powerful machine learning models.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 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?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 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. So allow me. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Miniature wells patterned onto the paper contain chemicals that react with samples of blood, urine, saliva, or sweat, which causes the paper to display a reading with a change of color. Diagnostics developed for emerging markets must be rugged, resistant to wear and tear, simple to operate, and temperature-resistant.

Marketing 12

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. The result will be innovation.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The most frequently cited motivation was the mitigation of business risk from potential disruption of operations, supplies, or reputational damage, cited 38% of the time, followed by the motivation to adhere to industry norms of transparency, traceability, environmental responsibility, and other accepted standards, cited 27.6% of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. As with many clusters, a university sits at its center: founded in AD 1088, the Studium of Bologna was the major educational innovation of Europe’s second millennium.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

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." Without them, they won't make it.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. 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. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Attacking "other" greenhouse gases , those that can be much more powerful warming agents than CO2, such as methane (which comes from animals/farms, natural gas leaks, and landfills) and HFCs (the class of chemicals used in refrigerants). In other words, costs for energy will potentially rise if your power is heavily coal-dependent.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Core metrics naturally acquire power in an organization, but people might not be aware of how they can bias decisions. 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.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Japan is in a state of crisis at present , but its future may be in safe hands judging by the manner in which the country's young people have rallied in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis that struck on March 11, 2011.

Crisis 14

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 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. “That’s very, very important.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Total investment in new power generation is a good indication of where we're headed, and for the first time renewables beat fossil fuels globally. In September, Siemens, one of the world's largest nuclear power plant suppliers, exited the business. Right now, the U.S. business continuity"). trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

In a wide variety of industries — from computers to chemical processes to a whole range of service businesses — the source for most of the commercially successful new products is customers, not R&D. Despite its reputation for innovation, and the fact it was in a robust growth market, the firm was close to shutting down the unit.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be. While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. Customers Innovation Technology'

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun. A powerful social movement on climate takes shape. Unilever U.S. utility sector.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

The most powerful tech companies in the world have been quietly deploying deep learning to improve their products and services, and none has invested more than Google. Entirely new business lines and markets will spring up, which will, in turn, give rise to still more innovation. Deep Learning.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Norway banned deforestation and both Norway and Germany moved toward banning fossil-fuel-powered cars.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8