Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. This “chemistry of conversations” is why it’s so critical for all of us –especially managers – to be more mindful about our interactions. Communication Difficult conversations Leadership Managing yourself' Consider Rob, a senior executive from Verizon.

Positioning 15

Positioning Chemicals Ryan Discount 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. Let’s take them one at a time.

Environment 11

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

At the other end of the spectrum, we found the fewest companies plan to hire in the two industries most driven by uncertainty and regulation: financials and health care. Our research found they are one of the regions struggling most to establish great talent management practices, among them hiring, assessing, rewarding, and firing talent.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. Other major industries, like computers, media, autos, chemicals, oil, and financial services are not far behind.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 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'

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

One sperm will be the first to pierce the egg's outer wall, triggering a chemical reaction that makes the egg's wall harder and impenetrable to competing sperm. As the female ovum floats down the fallopian tube, a few thousand sperm (of the 300 million that initially began the journey) search it out.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Uncertainty Operations Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This despite Wall Street’s uncertainty since the death of the company’s founder and visionary, Steve Jobs. How has Apple managed to maintain its stock price and convince investors of its growth potential? This past quarter Apple once again crushed its earnings report. It is the business of creating.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. Their goal is to lower product prices to gain market share away from competitors who import into the country.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” Discovery-driven planning has since become a staple in business schools’ entrepreneurship curricula and a go-to technique for those who manage innovation. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Since then, they have taught the concepts to thousands of students and managers.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Managers of the most effective teams encouraged adaptive ant colony behavior, while those of less effective innovation teams expected members to abide by rigid plans and rules. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. These are: 1.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Redundancy.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It’s a cliché to say that the world is more uncertain than ever before, but few realize just how much uncertainty has increased over the past 50 years. Although uncertainty is accelerating, it isn’t affecting all industries the same way. The more unknowns there are about customer preferences, the greater the demand uncertainty.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Faced with this uncertainty, most investors have chosen one of three options. The Lyme Timber Company is a private timberland investment management organization that acquires and sustainably manages land with unique conservation value in the United States and Canada. cash, fixed income, private equity, etc.)

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. presidential election.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

However, the region has long been volatile and unpredictable (from coups and sharp changes in government policies, to currency shortages, to terrorism and large-scale population displacements), so operating under uncertainty is not new. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. and the world, or what the corporate sustainability agenda will look like with so much uncertainty?

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8