Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. Even Merck, long a holdout on the partnership trend in pharma, now appears to be looking to leverage external relationships. Author included.). Mergers & Acquisitions'

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. So allow me. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed. This trend reveals an interest in what ultimately happens to individuals and populations.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. But innovating for sustainable development is actually quite close to the processes of “traditional” innovation. This can make the case for innovating in sustainable development more challenging. during the assembly.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Include in the process owner's job description the responsibility not only for process design, but also for taking action when process performance is out of spec or trending out of spec. A chemical company identified seven key process performance measures for each of its seven "value chains."

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

In the past few years, we have seen a trend towards greater emphasis on CEO stock ownership and holding requirements. This is a positive trend, but one that can actually backfire when a CEO has too many eggs in the share price basket. Rational decision makers should have balanced incentives in order to make balanced decisions.

TSR 10

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Companies should also learn from innovators in other markets, considering how those metrics might translate to their own businesses. While cloud is a more advanced notion, both ASP and SaaS provided foresight to where the industry might trend. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers. Unit sales don’t.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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. Under Wood, Sears became a pioneer in using demographic and economic trends to anticipate customer demand.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Food and food waste gets more attention, debate, and innovation: Can cows save the world, or should we make meat in labs?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

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. Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to executives surveyed by the Collaborative, access to difficult-to-find technical or functional expertise, speed, flexibility, and innovation are the top five drivers of using talent outside your organization. This in turn has given rise to innovative cross-organizational collaboration in learning of a variety of forms.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Companies need to strengthen their relationships with local partners and government decision makers – as well as invest in their own presence on the ground – in order to spot new problems, trends, customers, and opportunities. We’ve seen highly creative ways of doing so.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

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). We’re seeing some interesting innovation in policy and business practice.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8