Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? For some, say children (most likely his primary target audience), Buddy is an elf.

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Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

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. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.”

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Women's Leadership Exchange

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Just like ‘natural cosmetics’ turned out to be NOT necessarily good for one’s skin, this film tells the story of how the drilling technology of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, to unlock the natural gas beneath us, is NOT GOOD – in fact, out right dangerous - to our health. Arm yourselves with your courage.

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Film Chemicals Long-term Process 99

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. So I’m sitting there, writing.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. So I’m sitting there, writing.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

Like many people today, he was worried about unchecked corporate power. Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants. First, the owner-manager firms were not possible.

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Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

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. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change. Industrial Revolution.”

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Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand. 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

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The economics of the “New Economy” could be described at a high level: Digital technology would cause a reduction in the cost of search and communication. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. The Next Analytics Age.

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Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

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

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them. Lack of top management support and attention . The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.”

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. after chemicals). This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based Goodrich, and General Tire). incumbents.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Over the years, as LED technology has developed and become more popular, the cost of the lights has gone down so the price difference is not as great as it used to be. The reason they are more energy-efficient is that unlike traditional lights, which lose around 80% of their power as heat, LEDs only lose between 10% and 20%.

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Chemicals Efficiency Energy Long-term 75

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. This provided some financial stability to its staff and kept up motivation given the abrupt drop in purchasing power their employees are facing.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Sustainability Talent management'

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. But we’re not stopping there.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

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Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Over the past decade, technology companies and their leaders have launched diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, hoping to make employees of all backgrounds and experiences feel welcome in our industry. DIBs — the power of belonging — is backed up by a great deal of research. I wanted to call dibs on belonging.

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Diversity Storytelling Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. It may well reflect the power of focus.

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Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Core metrics naturally acquire power in an organization, but people might not be aware of how they can bias decisions. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers.

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Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. Yet, neither BP and the U.S.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Over the past 20 years, information technology and digital channels have changed the way consumers shop for products ranging from cars to homes to electronics. From the buyer’s perspective, information technology and digital channels provide access to information and enable self-sufficiency. Sellers must respond. Systems (e.g.,

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B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

A conglomerate, by definition, is a large corporation with diversified product lines , owned and run by the same management. As many economists have argued, the burden of proof is on the company's management to show that these diverse businesses are better off together than they would be independently.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it?

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Shouldn’t advancing technologies, in agriculture and operations, also be able to help here?

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

It now uses the technology to improve voice search on Windows mobile and Bing. 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. In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Technological uncertainty results from unknowns regarding the technologies that might emerge or be combined to create a new solution.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The biggest commitments are: Generating 50% clean power by 2025. The 50% clean power target initially made the biggest splash, and for good reason. only built more wind power, we would need to add 3 times as much as we did over the last decade. Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40% to 45% by 2025.

Energy 8

Energy Price Cooper Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Despite lower oil prices, currency depreciations, higher taxes, and geopolitical uncertainty, the region is still rich in opportunities, from selling efficiency-enhancing technology to the Saudi government to offering Western products to 100 million Ethiopian consumers. Product adaptation.

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Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9