Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

Many companies in European markets that have producers or suppliers in China currently do not assess carbon footprint in their supply chains. The most significant impact of introducing a carbon border tax will be on the cost of products with high-carbon inputs, such as steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, and electricity-intensive processes.

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

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. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Marketing & Sales. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Salesforce Transformation. Innovation. Assessment Centers. Digital Services. Industries. Financial Services. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Research & Development. Manufacturing.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

The chance to make more people more valuable worldwide is a market opportunity that could and should prove bigger than bots. This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. But why stop with industrial assets?

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 31

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

Benchmarking 31

Benchmarking Methodologies Apparel Company 31