Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

Information Technology 14

Information Technology Technology Information Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Former CEOs / Advisors.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I remember a time when she had to have a major operation to correct a life-threatening condition. The procedure upset her hormonal system, which caused a chemical imbalance in her brain, leading to depression. One fellow I know is a relentless learner, but primarily in one area—information technology.

Development 102

Development Succession Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 102

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. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Director Recruitment and Skills.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. The American entrepreneurial mythos arose in an environment that was perfect for supporting new businesses: rapid growth, technological change, constant competition, limited government intervention.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This is precisely what Xerox did when it created Xerox Technology Ventures.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 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. We are focused on remote operation to minimize human supervision, and therefore, the additional risk of spreading Covid-19, while running our system.”.

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 11

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 11

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

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 10

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 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. 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 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

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. To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach. The company did eventually go bankrupt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

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. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances. What about cash customers? Casual browsers?

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

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 12

Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

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

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 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.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. The CHRO must step up to the implications of the new world of work.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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

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 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm. Another way to enhance board engagement is to assign directors specific operational areas to engage on. Case in point: directors who tap their networks to source new hires.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). We wanted to know which were the strongest skills represented on boards and which were missing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8