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MAY 9, 2013

A chemical manufacturer with a solid customer listening program noticed an uptick in complaints about pricing. It learned that some distributors were selling chemicals for applications in markets better served by off-the-shelf, commodity products. It conducted some root cause analysis, talking to those customers.

Chemicals 44

Chemicals Sales Analysis Training 44

MishTalk

JULY 15, 2015

Slight Bounce in Industrial Production Following unexpected negative numbers in April and May, an Industrial Production bounce in June came pretty much in line with Economist's Expectations. percent rise in June industrial production looks respectable but still overstates strength. percent rise for hi-tech production, a 0.7

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Industry Productivity Chemicals Retail 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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Chemicals Banking Film Fashion 49

Harvard Business

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. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites.

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Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 32

Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Both respond not only to direct, physical inputs (chemicals, illness) but more and more, to cultural ones, to the noise of comparisons and narratives. Marketers usually sell pleasure. Learning to productively live with an itch is part of happiness. Both are cultural constructs. That's a shortcut to easy, repeated revenue.

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Chemicals Comparison Construction Media 55

Harvard Business

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. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 29, 2018

Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever. Markets are more open to levelling up… new innovations that translate to productivity are adopted more easily. The ratchet turns the ratchet.

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Engineering Chemicals Benchmarking Travel 25

CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Financial Services Operating Group concerns itself with Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance. The Products Operating Group concentrates on Air Freight & Travel Service, Automotive, Consumer Goods & Services, Industrial Equipment, Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Life Sciences, and Retail.

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Accenture Case Interview Operations Automotive 45

Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

While they gleaned some good information about clients’ needs, allowing them to dovetail the products they were selling into the conversation, there was little buy-in from the prospects they were talking to. As a result, their sales calls felt mechanical and staid. Avoid negative conversational behaviors.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus. Consumer Products. 3 in the chemicals and pharma sector – brand eins. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness. Turnaround & Restructuring.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Data-Driven Marketing. To understand which capabilities matter most, we studied a subset of top-performing companies, as defined by increased market share, self-described excellent pricing decisions, and execution of regular price increases. A diagnosis allocated costs at the product and customer level to determine true profitability.

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B2B Survey Company Sales 34

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 6, 2020

With the US Federal Reserve printing up several trillion dollars of new money in 2020, market commentators have been banging the war drum. Or in words: Amount of money (M) x Rate of spending (v) = Price level (P) x Real value of production (Y). The real value of production in the US also plummeted by around 10.6%

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Banking Government Financial Chemicals 109

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

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MishTalk

JUNE 2, 2015

percent and reflecting strength for chemical products. Computers and Electrical Products -4.0% Chemical products, down six consecutive months, drove the decrease, $0.4 Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Machinery +0.9%

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Chemicals Transportation Report Energy 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

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Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. Aon entered the Middle East market in 1985. In terms of engagement cost, the MBB firms are still more expensive and exclusive, even in the Middle East. in revenue (wow!).

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2014

Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. The last paragraph above explains all you need to know. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

It might, for example, be cheaper to simply cease manufacturing a troublesome product than to publicly defend the product or to implement restrictive new regulatory requirements. When you are facing an issue, potential cost is an important consideration. By contrast, cost is usually not an immediate consideration when facing a crisis.

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Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 99

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The top 25 food and beverage companies have lost $18 billion in market share since 2009. The risk to traditional grocers and Big Food is not just market share declines but category obsolescence. Another way to survive is to raise the price dramatically by going super-premium or by becoming very focused in local markets.

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Industry Chemicals Sales Marketing 53

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. What do they offer us?

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Harvard Business

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.

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B2B Government Marketing Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

“rust-belt” states, which were some of the most productive areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. economy at this time – specifically electricity and chemicals, which accounted for 13.9% The chart below shows the share in each state of inventors who were born abroad. of all U.S.

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Research Chemicals Video Study 33

BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation. Companies in developed markets are struggling. Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. They’re so far removed from it. Andrew Liveris.

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Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Enterprise Data Productivity Software 29

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. Smaller regulatory changes are also associated with a subsequent rise in firm market values and profits.

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Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Transportation 34

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Nowadays, when a multitude of businesses are confronted with the leap from “dumb” products to creating smart, connected ones , and cities and regions are trying to make the leap from manufacturing to services, relying too heavily on past successes will only lock those clusters in the past. Moreover, a cluster can never be static.

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Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2016

The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots. In addition to increasing production and reducing waste, indoor vertical farming also eliminates runoff from pesticides and herbicides — chemicals used in traditional outdoor farming that can be harmful to the environment.

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Chemicals Energy Trends Productivity 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

labor market in manufacturing and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if ratified by the U.S. consumer market, the stable political and economic environment, and the benefit of tapping into America engineering skills and manufacturing know-how are main draws. consumer demand, rather than reshoring of automobile production.

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Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

labor market in manufacturing and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if ratified by the U.S. consumer market, the stable political and economic environment, and the benefit of tapping into America engineering skills and manufacturing know-how are main draws. consumer demand, rather than reshoring of automobile production.

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

It might, for example, be cheaper to simply cease manufacturing a troublesome product than to publicly defend the product or to implement restrictive new regulatory requirements. When you are facing an issue, potential cost is an important consideration. By contrast, cost is usually not an immediate consideration when facing a crisis.

Media 53

Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 53

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Growing Slower 20 Production 56.5 For example, a chemical company with 300 employees carries the same weight as an auto manufacturer with 200,000 employees. percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis." percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis ".

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Trends Construction Chemicals Report 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business

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. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door. In fact, this is unlikely.

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Intellectual Property Research Industry Engineering 32

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). 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.

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Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

I admit, I’ve been doing some outbound marketing to get some dates but the remarkable thing is that so many of these events have been booked because of the snowball effect. Facts: There is a brain chemical called Oxytocin which under lies our propensity to trust. Since March first I have been scheduled to speak on Trust 15 times.

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