Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. For example, they have developed a new Open Fan Design that will reduce carbon emissions by more than 20%. Chemical Innovations.

Trends 88

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S.,

Chemicals 38

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 38

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

B2B 28

B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 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. 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 39

Research Chemicals Video Study 39

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Top performers are more likely to: employ truly tailored pricing at the individual customer and product level. invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. A diagnosis allocated costs at the product and customer level to determine true profitability.

B2B 40

B2B Survey Company Sales 40

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. 3 in the chemicals and pharma sector – brand eins. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

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

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

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

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

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 32

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 32

CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Products Operating Group concentrates on Air Freight & Travel Service, Automotive, Consumer Goods & Services, Industrial Equipment, Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Life Sciences, and Retail. The Resources Operating group is devoted to Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities.

Accenture 45

Accenture Case Interview Operations Automotive 45

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.

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Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 28

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

Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Deloitte has received many awards such as Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence award. Interdisciplinary teams are handpicked from “Competence Centers” to develop the best solutions for their strong client base. bravo Deloitte!).

Oliver Wyman 160

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160

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 38

Intellectual Property Research Industry Engineering 38

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

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Some questions have what I like to call a catalytic quality. ” I’ve always been a believer in the principle of celebrating what you want to see more of.

Apparel 33

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 33

BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Companies in developed markets are struggling. Developed-market companies had an average annual five-year TSR of −1.3%, a result of limited revenue growth and eroding margins. 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

Telecommunications 39

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 39

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

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. The unit has fewer than 100 people divided among data science/analytics, technology, and social media.

Operations 28

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 28

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. Among non-financial corporations, most of the effect is accounted for by just five industries: pharmaceuticals/chemicals, petroleum refining, transportation equipment/defense, utilities, and communications.

Pharmaceuticals 41

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Transportation 41

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

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

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. Consumer Products. Innovation. Strategic IT. Automotive.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 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

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. There are 2 Senior Vice Presidents as well – one heads up Strategic Development and the other serves as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Petroleum & Chemicals. Litigation discovery.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

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

JUNE 26, 2018

She’d hoped to escape from work for the morning, but as the founder and CEO of 2 Proud Pups, a maker of all-natural dog care products, she didn’t have much free time. Existing products had touted their cleaning power, but their ingredient lists were long and full of nasty-sounding chemicals that irritated the dogs’ skin.

Case Studies 28

Case Studies Case Study Study Productivity 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 33

Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 33

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” One would rearrange artwork in rooms to stimulate comatose patients’ brains; others devoted time to learning about the chemicals they used for cleaning rooms and figuring out which were least likely to irritate patients’ conditions.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Study Exercises Financial 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.” Unit sales don’t.”

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 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. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

Operations 62

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 62

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

Let's return to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development , what I call the “Agile Manifesto.” ” Product quality stunk. As an industry, our product quality still stunk. The thinking was if we could get the process right, we could get great products faster, cheaper, and with better quality.

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Agile Software Construction Productivity 66