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. These choices are apparently working fine, with the caveat that the supply cannot seem to meet the demand.

Operations 28

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Thus, they work towards creating or upgrading current purchasing processes to enhance efficiency and maximize savings. Consumer Products. You have to be prepared for Sunday – Friday travel, which is the flip-side of client exposure – you get to meet and collaborate with the client, but you are NEVER at home.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

” 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. I do not know of any sort of product construction that does not iterate on the requirements and design. Sound familiar?

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Agile Software Construction Productivity 66

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

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Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Chipotle has ramped up efforts to improve food safety since then, reportedly hiring two leading food safety experts and investing $10 million in helping smaller suppliers meet their updated safety standards. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe. Nor would you want it to be.

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Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

Aligning appliance, equipment, and vehicle fuel efficiency standards. Whatever form a carbon price takes — either direct taxation or this kind of cap-and-trade scheme – it will deeply impact industries reliant on fossil fuels, like chemicals. His recent energy speech in North Dakota pushed for more fossil fuel production.

Energy 29

Energy Government Efficiency Chemicals 29

MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

By now it is well known that the proprietor of the ''Silk Road'' internet marketplace for drugs and other illicit products has been busted by the FBI. For instance, it is no coincidence that marihuana use became illegal around the time chemical concerns such as Du Pont de Nemours introduced artificial fibers.

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Pharmaceuticals Industry Operations Chemicals 77

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. 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. Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016. In the U.S.,

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28