Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. Those who report positively in all these areas show true returns on the investment in engagement efforts. Their answer: “I’m going to create something positive for someone. I’m going to solve a problem.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety. An overwhelming 77.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Why do negative comments and conversations stick with us so much longer than positive ones? Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. ” The good news is that managers appear to be using positive, oxytocin and C-IQ elevating behaviors more often than negative behaviors. .”

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

The researchers posit that in this most perilous of times, it’s vital that we keep surfaces clean to prevent the transmission of any droplets that may contain the virus.

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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. Outside of chemicals and pharma, patents fail this boundary test.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Our research attempts to shed light on this debate, by focusing on the history of immigrants as technological innovators. innovation, we linked the birthplace of millions of individuals from Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 to millions of inventors from patent records. Yet the role of immigrants in U.S. of all U.S.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. Potential innovation benefits are literally not worth it. Money can change everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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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. Starting from explosives and farming chemicals, these B2B companies have embedded their expertise in powerful software platforms to expand beyond the traditional products.

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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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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. Anthropologist Clifford Geertz posits that all of our behaviors are imbued with socio-cultural significance. A Wink or a Twitch? Knowing Too Much.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. But innovating for sustainable development is actually quite close to the processes of “traditional” innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. Give special attention to multiple selves that might positively or negatively impact and influence customer and client UX.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. Through regular dialogue with stakeholders and continual iteration , a company with a sustainability agenda is better positioned to anticipate and react to economic, social, environmental, and regulatory changes as they arise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” But companies will need new positions as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

That criticism perhaps held in early iterations of Kodak’s digital cameras (the $20,000 DCS-100, for example), but Kodak ultimately embraced simplicity, carving out a strong market position with technologies that made it easy to move pictures from cameras to computers. What new opportunities does the disruption open up?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

thanks to its highly technical metal and chemical industries. As to the bots’ impact on employment, that is less clearly visible, and may be positive, negative, or mixed. For example, Germany deploys over three times as many robots per hour worked than the U.S., Sweden has 60% more robots per hours worked than the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Holding roles ranging from chairman to chief innovation and branding officer, he "tended to zoom in and out, creating confusion about who was in charge." After former Starbucks executive Christine Day was named CEO, Wilson also faced a passionate-founder''s crisis: He didn''t know what to do.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

This is a positive trend, but one that can actually backfire when a CEO has too many eggs in the share price basket. Require CEOs to hold reasonable — but not excessive — levels of stock, and over a longer time frame. Rational decision makers should have balanced incentives in order to make balanced decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

The horizontal axis (“impact”) tracks the spectrum of outcomes created by business, from negative to positive. As a final illustration of the downsides of some innovations, I mention Midgley’s development of an automatic bed, using ropes and pulleys, to get him in and out of bed when he sadly contracted polio.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. They started by relocating some key positions around the world, staffed by other nationalities. Without balance, they simply won’t understand the world that’s emerging.

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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. If it is positive, it’s thumbs up, if it’s negative, it’s thumbs down. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

And 45% said that they need to bring new innovations into Sub-Saharan Africa to support their strategic objectives in the next three years. We’ve seen highly creative ways of doing so. They essentially created a brand-new market for their products in the absence of traditional hospital buildings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve already mentioned the historic Paris agreement, but there are more positive steps worth noting. With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. days of innovation).

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