Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Launching first in an emerging market is seen as a nonstarter because of commercial, regulatory, and political risks. market last in some cases. 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.

Marketing 11

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Working with UL’s Good Guide system , Target scores 7,000 products on a 100-point scale, with 50 points at stake related to the toxicity of ingredients. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. besides the military.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

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. Data-Driven Marketing. Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Their value is supported by a system of distinctive capabilities, aligned with an entire portfolio of offerings. Where are the markets with opportunities? Pursuing growth this way can put tremendous pressure on your enterprise to extend into new markets that seem hot — but where your enterprise has no capabilities to win.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Reliance MediaWorks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“The medieval guild system was a primitive networking exercise.” The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. They are known for demonstrating a special sensitivity to the market needs of the specialized manufacturers who use their services.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? How did this happen and what can be gleaned from it to inform the transformation of the CHRO?

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Initially these savings are mainly physical, as you stretch the use of tangible assets such as plants, networks and systems. The nature of these economies of scale and scope change as you diversify more and more.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We’ve certainly had to change too. So we do let some people go.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Many homeowners, for example, have connected their alarm systems to security companies; many drivers accept having devices such as mileage trackers in their vehicles. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances.

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

In fact, among the 65 industries and almost 6,000 companies we studied across the globe, no industry had a TSR variation that was lower than 30 percentage points, and the variation in one industry, chemicals, was a whopping 206 percentage points. Second, top-quartile companies operate more profitably than other companies.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

They are, after all, the company’s steadfast guidance system, charged with keeping an even keel in rough waters. Innovations at the top extend even to how the board itself operates, and Blackstone Group — one of the leading investment groups in the world — has been pressing the case. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. The reason is that conducting due diligence will be costly and arduous because small companies often have poor reporting and accounting systems. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. This suggests that endocrinal functions that regulate the autonomic central system are actually regulated by the conscious control of stress levels.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. These include, among others, access to foreign markets for investments, protecting intellectual property, or visas for skilled, temporary staff. Instead, U.S.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that. Evidence!”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that. Evidence!”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups.

Open-book 9

Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. In countries like Mozambique and Rwanda, where the per capita GDP is under $1,000, the average annual cost of $33 (12 months x 5 days x 5 pad/day x.11/pad)

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. Our markets have taken a beating.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. We have seen the market penalize that approach.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

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. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. Here's how.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

For years, the creative side of the company was the top priority, leaving things like finance, IT, and HR to suffer (yes, they tried to run their operations on spreadsheets). Why would an industry beat a hasty retreat from a market that continues to boom?" Missing the "How" and "Why". The Psychiatric Drug Crisis The New Yorker.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Back in 1991, a Wall Street Journal article included a chart entitled, "A Dream Market," comparing gay households to the national average, noting the relative potential advertising appeal for a variety of industries. LGBT marketing is on the rise.

Advertising 16

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. A study of nature offers straightforward guidance through four key practices of adaptable systems. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Decentralization.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Based on a combined thirty years of research and experience, Rita and Ian’s book provides a breakthrough system for managing strategic growth. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. When Intuitive Surgical launched the Da Vinci System medical robot — which allows surgeons to operate using 3-D visualization and four robotic arms — the company faced significant technical as well as demand uncertainty.

Uncertainty 20

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

At Facebook’s AI lab, they’ve built a deep learning system capable of answering simple questions to which it had never previously been exposed. At the beginning of this year, another Google deep learning system defeated one of the best players of Go—the world’s most complex board game.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8