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

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Consumer Products. Here’s a list of notable AlixPartners alumni (okay, none of them are brand-name or famous but all are impressive) include: Reid MacInnes Cuming – Founder – Platform Development LLC. Sean Sternbach – Director of Operations – Pet Lodge Pet Resort. Turnaround & Restructuring.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

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

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

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. 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

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. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. Winston : Absolutely.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 61

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 61

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Telecommunications 38

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 38

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Kearney aims to provide support for companies by helping them stay ahead of new market developments and positioning them to capture new opportunities. Operations. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Innovation. Strategic IT.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

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. The Hay Group carried on growing for the next 20 years, expanding its operations and its global reach. Practice Areas. Job evaluation.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

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. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour.

Company 28

Company Engineering Apparel Energy 28

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

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. In a new research paper , I tease apart the factors associated with the growth in corporate valuations relative to assets ( Tobin’s Q ) and the growth in operating margins.

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Transportation 40

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 37

Intellectual Property Research Industry Engineering 37

BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Such companies may be finding that the low-growth environment has undercut their efforts to improve TSR through greater discipline with respect to operating costs and capital. Companies in developed markets are struggling. The largest and the smallest companies in developed markets (excluding Japan) outperformed the midsize companies.

Report 40

Report Construction Cash Flow Engineering 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014).

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

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.

Education 28

Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

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. 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.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

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 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Members of this health care company who experienced relational energy with their leaders were more engaged at work, which then led to higher productivity. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement.

Energy 28

Energy Study Chemicals Research 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. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

Film 28

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Benchmarking 32

Benchmarking Methodologies Apparel Company 32

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. We’d all be served by identifying more ways to develop positive collegial relationships at work.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Study Exercises Financial 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. We have come a long way, baby for sure.

Operations 218

Operations Travel Chemicals System 218

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. Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. They were a management consulting firm whose clients were chemical and petroleum companies.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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. Research & Development. Innovation.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Delivery of some agricultural products to Iran have also been affected for the same set of reasons. Operations on haemophiliacs have been virtually suspended because of the risks created by the shortages. A teenage boy died from hemophilia due to a shortage of medicine caused by the sanctions on Iran.

Pharmaceuticals 75

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Report Policies 75

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

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. It has developed sophisticated tools to help companies build and test the business case for action, or inaction.

Chemicals 45

Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 45

Harvard Business

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. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe.

Case Studies 28

Case Studies Case Study Operations Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Biologists can learn about a metabolic pathway in a cell from a mutation, or discern how an organism develops from an embryo by seeing how genetic errors are handled. These “bugs” in the system can provide information about what is going on inside. So what would it mean for a biologist for technology to do this kind of thing?

Construction 28

Construction System Software Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. made products. Advances in manufacturing technology.

Chemicals 39

Chemicals Policies Productivity Trends 39

Harvard Business

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.

Government 33

Government Efficiency Policies Operations 33

Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

The most powerful tech companies in the world have been quietly deploying deep learning to improve their products and services, and none has invested more than Google. And I predict that deep learning will change the way people interact with technology as radically as operating systems transformed ordinary people’s access to computers.

Training 28

Training Training Software System 28

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. the EU, and Japan have agreed to develop “joint action” on China’s subsidies. negotiators.

Policies 28

Policies Industry Government Chemicals 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. With that background, please consider the Extreme Tech report FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator. Escrow accounts were not as protected.

Pharmaceuticals 77

Pharmaceuticals Industry Operations Chemicals 77