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. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

Given the unusual circumstances placed upon them, it’s perhaps no surprise that technology is playing a major part in the re-opening. They argue that while chemical cleaning products are effective at cleaning such surfaces, it’s a highly labor intensive task to ensure they are cleaned repeatedly, especially in larger facilities.

Banking 84

Banking Environment Chemicals System 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. The technology is revolutionary because the paper tests can be manufactured for only a few cents and can deliver test results instantaneously.

Marketing 12

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. That was fast, Liu thought.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. Perhaps profits are rising because firms are increasingly making profitable investments in new technology, in IT, or in their organizational capabilities. Profits are up. Corporate valuations are up as well. But is it good news for society?

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 9

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.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

The technology ecosystem known as the internet of real-time data is moving us toward a better understanding of what these consumers are thinking and doing. High-speed processing is a must, because customers don't linger long. Can anything be learned about shoppers who don't carry loyalty cards? What about cash customers?

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

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. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Allow time and persevere. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

Company 9

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen. Ronaldo Schmitz), one Asian (myself) and one Canadian (Dr. John McArthur).

Team 11

Team Diversity CFO TSR 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Although many boards continue to select new members from their own networks, our research suggests that more are beginning to implement objective processes to select members based on the skills and attributes that boards need to be effective. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” ” With Anderson’s help, Staples’ net profits grew more than tenfold over the next five years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This will lead to significant gaps in areas such as engineering, petrol-chemicals, utilities, defense manufacturing, education, healthcare, and air traffic control. Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 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. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the description of Wilderotter, strategy needs to become “a collaborative process where different opinions can be put on the table” and “different options can be reviewed and discarded.” Another way to enhance board engagement is to assign directors specific operational areas to engage on. Engaging the field.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 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. For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year.

Metrics 8

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

Crisis 14

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. That’s where the discovery-driven planning (DDP) process comes in. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. . Not so fast.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

They then approached MIT to partner on enhancing the process to make it more absorbent. She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You guys are the experts and I’m expecting to help me to learn this process. He said, “so I just met the needs, the needs of the plant and I guess that built some influence in the process”. We’ll teach you our technology. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You guys are the experts and I’m expecting to help me to learn this process. He said, “so I just met the needs, the needs of the plant and I guess that built some influence in the process”. We’ll teach you our technology. And contrast that to Devon’s son who got out of college, chemical engineering degree, six figures.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” The original response from GM was not to look for the root cause because that wasn’t part of the company’s thought process.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

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). You instill process improvement into the corporate DNA.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

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. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Yet, neither BP and the U.S.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity. Technology. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.” Shifting to an exponential mindset is challenging, precisely for the reasons Kelly gives.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Our technologies are far from pristine constructions. The IRS uses technologies from the 1960s , and the Space Shuttle used computer chips that were decades old. In the face of this complexity, we try to impose a simple logic and understanding upon these technologies. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Frankly, they’re a mess.

Construction 8

Construction Technology System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Technologies exist that allow them to easily post a recommendation to their Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections, and Twitter followers. So with the help of MIT's Eric von Hippel , the firm developed a process for bypassing internal product development and finding such customers, which it called "lead users."

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

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. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Despite decades of unbroken gains in speed and processing capacity, machines can’t do what the average toddler does without even trying. It now uses the technology to improve voice search on Windows mobile and Bing. In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information. That is—until now.

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.

Uncertainty 21

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I).

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8