Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. They’re so far removed from it. Andrew Liveris.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 28

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 31

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 31

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 36

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

When we multitask, our mind switches back and forth between different tasks, which hurts our productivity, creativity, and accuracy by increasing cognitive load and impairing memory. Research attributes this to both structural and chemical differences in their brains. Another reason is that women typically worry more than men.

Study 49

Study Chemicals Research Report 49

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

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 Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Study Productivity 28

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate Survey 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

At a global chemical manufacturer, the IT function has a highly educated team of fewer than 20 statisticians, operations research professionals, and PhDs to develop advanced demand forecasting models, supply chain operational optimization, and raw materials for purchasing-decision support. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

Operations 28

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

When I was in graduate school, I once heard Bill George tell a story about how he’d highlight both patients and employees at the Medtronic annual meeting when he was CEO. Connect work to service. They were pursuing excellence in service to others and would adapt their jobs to suit that purpose.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Study Exercises Financial 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Petroleum & Chemicals. Retail & Consumer Products. Promotions are dependent on how quickly you meet functional competencies and skill requirements set out for you by the powers that be. In this way, cross office politics can affect morale and productivity. Government & Public Contracts. Information Technology.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

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. I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. ” It worked.

Operations 57

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 57

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

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. Kearney has its hands in a wide collection of cookie jars. Automotive. Communications. Technology. Financial Institutions.

Interviews 100

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?

Agile 66

Agile Software Construction Productivity 66

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM Czechoslovakia, and IBM Japan created their own regional consulting services departments to meet business client service needs in each specific region. They were a management consulting firm whose clients were chemical and petroleum companies. Chemicals and Petroleum. Consumer Products. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In the years that followed Sogeti’s founding, the company opened offices in Switzerland and France to meet the needs of clients. Consumer Products and Retail Automotive (OEM) Energy, Utilities & Chemicals Financial Services Life Sciences Manufacturing Public Sector Telecommunication, Media and Entertainment.

Capgemini 192

Capgemini Interviews Consulting Accenture 192

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.

Chemicals 43

Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 43

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.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Think Rube Goldberg contraption meets MacGyver, but without the playfulness. Sometimes biologists seek these errors out, or even generate them themselves — bombarding organisms with chemicals or radiation to create mutations — in order to discern the space of what is possible for a fruit fly or how bacteria truly operate.

Construction 28

Construction System Software Chemicals 28

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

The other thing is we want to make sure that we're able to clear out toxins which inhibit the production of hormones and nutrients and their function. And those neurotransmitters are chemicals that affect the body positively. In other words, your gas tank should be 3/4 full. The thyroid requires zinc, selenium and iodine.

Interviews 207

Interviews Exercises System Tools 207

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. The subsidies will also put pressure on global supply chains, including production of high tech goods needed for national security. In recent years, U.S. And they were just a leading edge. Five years of U.S.

Policies 28

Policies Industry Government Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

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. That helps drive costs down for everyone buying efficiency products and renewable energy. And it would affect energy spending for all companies.

Energy 30

Energy Government Efficiency Chemicals 30

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.

Pharmaceuticals 77

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.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

MishTalk

MARCH 4, 2015

But hardwood isn''t the only product they sell. company, but much of its laminate flooring is made in China, and as we discovered during our investigation, may fail to meet health and safety standards, because it contains high levels of formaldehyde, a known cancer causing chemical. Lumber Liquidators is a U.S. I don''t care.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Report Productivity Company 28