Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In the United States, beginning in 1927 with the Federal Caustic Poison Act, government policies requiring warnings initially focused on exposures that posed immediate, toxic hazards. A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.”

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Just as they do for physical fitness, technologies tracking steps and heart rates already capture actionable inferences about individual energy levels and moods. For example, as part of its IoT digital transformation efforts, GE embraced “digital twins” as a key productivity technology.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Previously, she was the vice president of Global Public Policy at Facebook. 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., Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability. Andrew Liveris. We need both.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Perhaps profits are rising because firms are increasingly making profitable investments in new technology, in IT, or in their organizational capabilities. ” Concentration of political influence among a narrow group of firms means that those firms may skew policy for the entire economy.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

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. Policies like this have led to a 50% drop in crime in Merseyside, Liverpool. 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

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. 2 Chemical Company, were very active.

Case Study 11

Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

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

DECEMBER 28, 2012

While this graying of the Boomer generation certainly has implications for health care and social policy (and for me personally, as one of those eventual retirees), it may have even more significance for the nature of the workforce and the job of the manager. First, there will be a shortage of workers for key jobs.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

And therein lies a lesson for economists and policy makers today. Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants. It also came from new technologies, most recently the internet.

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Yet with a deadlock among governments leading to the dropping of discussion of global negotiations on public procurement and investment policies in 2004, and little interest in opening service-sector markets, the round has been narrowed to a focus on agricultural and manufactured trade. Still, there is a clear basis for a deal. Instead, U.S.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 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. Mere words and policies are not sufficient. John McArthur). Tangible evidence is required.

Team 12

Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Over the past decade, technology companies and their leaders have launched diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, hoping to make employees of all backgrounds and experiences feel welcome in our industry. These chemicals trigger our human ability to connect, empathize, and make meaning.

Diversity 8

Diversity Storytelling Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf says her challenge in dealing with scientists, academics, businesspeople, community activists and policy wonks "is always, 'How do I speak in the same language to each of these different constituencies each with their unique language and objectives?'". Emotion Creates a Common Language.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Some) businesses get off the sidelines in the climate policy fight: Hundreds of companies sign onto the Climate Declaration. Walmart is phasing out 10 toxic chemicals in the products on its shelves, and HP set a carbon reduction goal of 20% for its supply chain. So what’s really new this year? What Companies Are Doing.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Shouldn’t advancing technologies, in agriculture and operations, also be able to help here? As a result, their sophistication and experience in terms of food testing is very good. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 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.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

But rather than illustrating a simple revenue model, the diagrams showed that over time he had adjusted his pricing policies to address customer demands, internal accounting guidelines, and competitive threats. “Basically, you just do what’s needed to make money, right?” ” Peter asked pointedly. The Value of Service.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Advances in manufacturing technology. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution. presidential election. Take the idea of a U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

Implementing policies that support the historic Paris climate accords — i.e., limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees celsius, and perhaps even holding it to 1.5 As citizens and policymakers consider how to limit global warming to the level agreed to in Paris, a whole range of aggressive policies will need to be on the table.

Energy 8

Energy Price Cooper Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

The primary tool of China’s industrial policy is subsidies to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for key industries such as robotics, advanced computers, and electric vehicles. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. In recent years, U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

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. 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 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. Walmart and Target demonstrated how this works by convening a Personal Care Products Sustainability Summit.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

complaint about China’s trade/globalization policies is precisely that Chinese trade and industrial policies are political and lead to government intervention in markets that contradicts China’s stated commitments to the spirit and rules of the WTO and to market-oriented globalization.

Globalization 10

Globalization Proposal Bureaucracy Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. Many invested heavily in renewable energy (see number five on this list), and some big companies dove into policy debates this year.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8