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.

Chemicals 30

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 30

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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.

B2B 28

B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 28

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

As author Caroline Turner states in her book Difference Works: Improving Retention, Productivity and Profitability Through inclusion , “ I lacked the passion to keep it up.” And as agriculture developed enough to create surplus product, the marketplace was born. Non-emotional : Trust facts over intuition or feelings.

Operations 218

Operations Travel Chemicals System 218

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.

Accenture 45

Accenture Case Interview Operations Automotive 45

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Marketing & Sales. Household Products.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

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. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

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.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

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. Deloitte has received many awards such as Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence award. in revenue (wow!).

Oliver Wyman 160

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160

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.

B2B 31

B2B Survey Company Sales 31

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency. Product adaptation. if the U.S.

Government 29

Government Efficiency Policies Operations 29

Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In a crisis the choices become fewer rather than more as the situation develops. 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. Cost in a crisis is most often a secondary consideration.

Media 99

Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 99

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

“rust-belt” states, which were some of the most productive areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The largest share of immigrants were involved in developing medical technology inventions, such as surgical sutures. The chart below shows the share in each state of inventors who were born abroad.

Research 30

Research Chemicals Video Study 30

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. This trend has triggered significant interest in reshoring production to and sourcing from North America.

Chemicals 30

Chemicals Policies Productivity Trends 30

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?

Chemicals 28

Chemicals System Government Productivity 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. They were a management consulting firm whose clients were chemical and petroleum companies. Marketing Sales & Service. Chemicals and Petroleum. Consumer Products. IBM GBS HISTORY.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Where are the markets with opportunities? What do they offer us?

Company 28

Company Engineering Apparel Energy 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Delivery of some agricultural products to Iran have also been affected for the same set of reasons. In recent reports, the development of a medicinal black market has come to the forefront of international news, a desperate population resorting to any means to obtain, at times life saving, medications.

Pharmaceuticals 75

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Report Policies 75

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.

Report 40

Report Construction Cash Flow Engineering 40

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity. Business models.

Chemicals 32

Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 32

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.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 28

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. Damion Sanders – Director, Talent/Executive Development at UnitedHealth Group. Practice Areas. 1. Leadership and talent.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In a crisis the choices become fewer rather than more as the situation develops. 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. Cost in a crisis is most often a secondary consideration.

Media 53

Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 53

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Kearney’s digital business service aims to help these companies stay at the top of their game in the digital world – separating hype from potential digital disruptors & developing specific digital strategies designed around the company’s capabilities. Marketing & Sales. Consumer Products. Innovation.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts. negotiators.

Policies 28

Policies Industry Government Chemicals 28

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.

Intellectual Property 30

Intellectual Property Research Industry Engineering 30

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.

Education 28

Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

It wasn’t until 1939, a decade later, that two chemists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain , came across Fleming’s paper, immediately understood its significance, and developed a method to produce penicillin in quantity. They began experimenting on mice, and eventually on humans, and saw incredible results. government.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Engineering Government Journal 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 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?

Film 28

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

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.

Pharmaceuticals 30

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Transportation 30

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.

Operations 28

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Chemicals 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

In the span of 9 years, the firm acquired more than 16 consulting companies in 5 different markets, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States and Latin America. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. Petroleum & Chemicals.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As Carlos Tavares, chair of PSA Peugeot Citroën, explained to me, “Unit sales will remain important, but this shouldn’t be our driver… To be ready, we must experiment and learn as markets change.” They start in other markets, with other customers, or with stealth incursions into the edges of your market.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28