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. Regulators now worry that declining seed competition may lead to price increases on foods that every American family consumes.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Detergents and Chemicals Having the right cleaning agents is crucial for efficient and effective pressure washing. Here are some tips to help you achieve success in your pressure-washing venture: Research and Plan You need to identify your target market , competition, and pricing strategies.

Chemicals 65

Chemicals Follow-up Discount Marketing Strategy 65

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. Early Struggles. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The top 25 food and beverage companies have lost $18 billion in market share since 2009. Grocers are watching customers make fewer trips to stores, and many chains are in a prolonged price war, with prices declining 1.3% The risk to traditional grocers and Big Food is not just market share declines but category obsolescence.

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Praveen Kopalle – Associate Dean MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management and Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. Even when regulators try to reduce prices, firms can benefit.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Research by my co-authors and myself has found that firms improving their performance on industry-specific, material ESG issues outperform their competitors , and firms disclosing more information on industry-specific material ESG issues exhibit more informative stock prices and as a result more efficient pricing of risks and opportunities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Going after future opportunities at the micromarket level can seem risky, but basing strategy on old views of markets and their past performance is riskier still. The first step is to overlay the rough allocation of resources across markets on the basis of their overall potential. Consider the case of a chemicals company.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

How has Apple managed to maintain its stock price and convince investors of its growth potential? Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

While companies are increasingly using detailed analytics to fine-tune pricing, packaging, and product performance, analytics have their limits when it comes to finding the next big idea. But since hand washers constitute 80% of the home-based washing market in India, it was too big a market to ignore. Do the economics work?

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been watching the global economy for decades, and it seems to me that growth in the United States is about to speed up, while growth in the emerging markets is slowing down. This makes the United States, for many chemical companies, the preferred place to manufacture. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 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. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

Company 11

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Whatever your discipline, doing business today means immersing yourself, and your organization, in a wealth of messy, unstructured, real time data from customers, competitors, and markets — and finding ways to use such data visibility to see what's coming. Big Data examines what people say about what they have done or will do.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Merchandising Retail Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. One option is for multinational companies to go flat out for market leadership in China; that is, try to be either No. 2 in the market. Go for Broke. Accept that Less is More.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. after chemicals). This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But nowadays if you wait until customers have all the information they need to buy, the only way you’re going to get their business is to compete on price. Who ever thought you could sell fresh eggs online for more than they cost in the local market? capital markets between 1985 and 2007. billion.'

Agility 8

Agility Chemicals Creativity Banking 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

MAY 5, 2016

“In all cities and markets and in the countryside,” the Reinheitsgebot reads, “only barley, hops, and water may be used for brewing beer.” But experts think the law was really about protecting markets, not consumers. Five hundred years ago, on April 23, 1516, two Bavarian dukes enacted the law.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

the conglomerate share price is less than the sum of the values of its constituent businesses), we would argue that the economies from leveraging personal relations with external parties are non-existent in these firms. In that same period PPG’s share price has risen by a compound average rate of 6.6%, compared to 5.1%

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Bayer divested its chemicals and materials businesses and ended up a pharmaceutical and crop-science giant. That means Yahoo’s “core business” of Internet media properties is being valued at less than zero by the market. This refocusing is often the other side of the coin in an acquisition strategy.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Health Care Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Attacking "other" greenhouse gases , those that can be much more powerful warming agents than CO2, such as methane (which comes from animals/farms, natural gas leaks, and landfills) and HFCs (the class of chemicals used in refrigerants). Talk about the need to price carbon so our markets can function correctly.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

This means that they can be re-utilized for secondary or emerging markets with a less sophisticated infrastructure. Apple, too, sells refurbished products for a cheaper price. Many companies have been refurbishing and replacing worn-out product parts so that they’re “new,” perform better, and continue to be useful.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing. What China makes is generally low-priced, with razor-thin profit margins, is available from almost any emerging market supplier, and contains little distinctive or proprietary intellectual capital. eat our lunch.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Not surprisingly, with the price of oil dropping, directors of companies the energy & utilities industries are particularly discouraged. If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

The food stalls in Singapore offer a ridiculous price-value combination. It is the world's second biggest market for Facebook and Blackberries. I've been told really cheap bottled water in India is probably worse than tap water, because chemicals from the plastic eek into the water. If you go to Shanghai take the MagLev train.

Airlines 15

Airlines Hotels Travel Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, Tesco uses vast data sets culled from decades of customers' Clubcard use to make pricing decisions, influence shoppers to buy specific items, and build loyalty. 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 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets. Distributed power generation is a well-known example.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

As the economy improved, the company expanded into machinery and chemicals imports. The businesses would have to be sold at rock-bottom prices. Our markets have taken a beating. Dramatic growth followed. My father won the Star of Mahaputera for service to Indonesia. Divest a few other underperforming assets.". "I''ve

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 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 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15