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. For a deep dive into the elements, see our related HBR article “ The B2B Elements of Value ”). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. 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. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%).

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 32

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Operations. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. 1995 – A.T.

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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. Moreover, ECS companies that serve the energy industry continued to suffer the ripple effect of low oil prices as their clients pulled back from growth initiatives.

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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.

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Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Transportation 33

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

You created not just a firm, but an industry we are all now proud of. Surely it was the largest when it was the only one, but they kept the lead after creating an idea so great that competitors formed to add unique flavor to the industry. Product and Service Innovation. Operations and Logistics. Consumer Products.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

The Hay Group carried on growing for the next 20 years, expanding its operations and its global reach. Below them is a team of five global managing directors, each owning a different sector: mature markets, fast-growing markets, productized services, people-delivered services, and expertise & knowledge management. Industries .

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

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. For one thing, most industries just don’t have many new startups, period.

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Intellectual Property Research Industry Engineering 31

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 54

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 54

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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand.

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Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry. For years, U.S. Who takes the hit?

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Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

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.

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Company Engineering Apparel Energy 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. He has accumulated a unique mix of deep knowledge of the organization, the industry, and how to work with Stefano Pessina, the company’s executive chairman.

Strategy 28

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Reshoring Index shows that for the fourth consecutive year, reshoring of manufacturing operations to the United States has once again failed to keep up with offshoring. Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States.

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Reshoring Index shows that for the fourth consecutive year, reshoring of manufacturing operations to the United States has once again failed to keep up with offshoring. Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States.

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

While Kodak stagnated and ultimately stumbled, Fuji aggressively explored new opportunities, creating products adjacent to its film business, such as magnetic tape optics and videotape, and branching into copiers and office automation, notably through a joint venture with Xerox. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle.

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Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in their original article, “conventional planning operates on the premise that managers can extrapolate future results from a well-understood and predictable platform of past experience.” ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. . ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

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Benchmarking Methodologies Apparel Company 29

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. Operations and Supply Chain. Chemicals and Petroleum.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

As a consultant, I have exposure to the inner workings of companies of all sizes and in all industries. 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.” We have come a long way, baby for sure.

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Operations Travel Chemicals System 218

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Founded in Paris, and containing the spliced DNA of other major firms it acquired along the way (Ernst & Young Consulting being the most notable), Capgemini Consulting is a global player in today’s consulting industry. Industries. KEY STATS FOR CAPGEMINI CONSULTING. Website: [link]. United States.

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Capgemini Interviews Consulting Accenture 192

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. With a constantly expanding field of practice areas, BTS is on its way to being a major player in the consulting industry. Industries. Industrial Equipment. Manufacturing.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Most do not proactively think ahead about organization.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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.

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Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Although technology is central to the exponential and abundance mindsets, much of the sustainability world remains distracted by incremental improvements to incumbent technologies, ranging from gasoline-powered automobiles to energy- and chemical-intensive air-conditioning systems. In 1944, the bed strangled him. Business models.

Chemicals 36

Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 36

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 32

Chemicals Policies Productivity Trends 32

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. billion people, makes the region an exciting expansion opportunity for multinationals across industries.

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Government Efficiency Policies Operations 30

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

The agreement touches on a range of other issues that could impact many industries. A deep shift in energy markets, including the agreement’s goals on making the grid more flexible and resilient, will change how utilities and energy companies need to operate. But the industry doesn’t really know for sure.

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Energy Government Efficiency Chemicals 29

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.

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Training Training Software System 28

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

jobs, industry, and consumers, this conflict will jeopardize essential allied collaboration to confront Chinese state capitalism, the underlying cause of much of the current trade conflict. ” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction.

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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.

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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. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

There are similar stories in the electronics industry, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and even national security. However, Section 1502 does not require firms to avoid DRC conflict minerals — it simply requires them to make a good faith effort to disclose the source of the minerals in their products. Two things stood out to us.

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Productivity Company Pharmaceuticals Survey 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

We also found that industry matters. Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Survey Healthcare 28