Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2023

Your strategy needs to consider current and future sustainability and ESG rules and regulations and market realities. PFAS are used in hundreds of thousands of products, from nonstick pans to water-repellent sports gear, to stain-resistant rugs. 2023 is the year when multiple sustainability-related regulations will come fully online.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? 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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The top 25 food and beverage companies have lost $18 billion in market share since 2009. The risk to traditional grocers and Big Food is not just market share declines but category obsolescence. Another way to survive is to raise the price dramatically by going super-premium or by becoming very focused in local markets.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. Smaller regulatory changes are also associated with a subsequent rise in firm market values and profits.

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Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Study 128

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In 1981 , the Cap Gemini Sogeti group entered the US market. The practice areas with projects that offer the best exit opportunities for business management are Big Data and Analytics, Marketing and Business & Technology Innovation. Industries.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

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.” And as agriculture developed enough to create surplus product, the marketplace was born. Non-emotional : Trust facts over intuition or feelings.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

They were a management consulting firm whose clients were chemical and petroleum companies. IBM’s target market for consulting services became the clients who were willing to pay for higher-value corporate services packages of research, software and services. Marketing Sales & Service. Chemicals and Petroleum.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

I admit, I’ve been doing some outbound marketing to get some dates but the remarkable thing is that so many of these events have been booked because of the snowball effect. Facts: There is a brain chemical called Oxytocin which under lies our propensity to trust. Since March first I have been scheduled to speak on Trust 15 times.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. Aon entered the Middle East market in 1985. In terms of engagement cost, the MBB firms are still more expensive and exclusive, even in the Middle East. in revenue (wow!).

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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. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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1 to 1

MAY 9, 2013

A chemical manufacturer with a solid customer listening program noticed an uptick in complaints about pricing. It learned that some distributors were selling chemicals for applications in markets better served by off-the-shelf, commodity products. It conducted some root cause analysis, talking to those customers.

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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. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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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. What do they offer us?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus. Consumer Products. 3 in the chemicals and pharma sector – brand eins. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness. Turnaround & Restructuring.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

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. When you are facing an issue, potential cost is an important consideration. By contrast, cost is usually not an immediate consideration when facing a crisis.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Today, Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company still reign in the federal sector – they own the highest percentage of the market in the government sector. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products. In 1940, they were hired to help the US Secretary of the Navy with World War II preparations. Program Management.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Both respond not only to direct, physical inputs (chemicals, illness) but more and more, to cultural ones, to the noise of comparisons and narratives. Marketers usually sell pleasure. Learning to productively live with an itch is part of happiness. Both are cultural constructs. That's a shortcut to easy, repeated revenue.

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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.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. BASF is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". Productivity and costs: Third quarter 2022, revised.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Delivery of some agricultural products to Iran have also been affected for the same set of reasons. In recent reports, the development of a medicinal black market has come to the forefront of international news, a desperate population resorting to any means to obtain, at times life saving, medications.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. Chemical Innovations.

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Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2020

There was a recent news story about a Seattle area law enforcement officer suing for about $11 million because of a health condition caused by vaping (a CBD product and something else to relieve his stress and pain). He heated a chemical concoction, inhaled it, and figured all was good? Am I missing something?

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2014

Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. The last paragraph above explains all you need to know. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. They’re so far removed from it. Andrew Liveris.

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Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 71

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.

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Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

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.

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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. Moreover, a cluster can never be static.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Fostering innovation.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 6, 2020

With the US Federal Reserve printing up several trillion dollars of new money in 2020, market commentators have been banging the war drum. Or in words: Amount of money (M) x Rate of spending (v) = Price level (P) x Real value of production (Y). The real value of production in the US also plummeted by around 10.6%

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Banking Government Financial Chemicals 109

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. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

’s War Production Board enlisted 21 companies to produce supplies for the war effort, saving countless lives and ushering in the new age of antibiotics. When his wife got tired of the explosions he made mixing chemicals in the kitchen, he moved his work to a second-floor room in a house his mother-in-law owned.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But the food production, delivery and consumption chain is filled with waste. When we price carbon accurately, the efficient market will start to pay more attention to harvesting the last peach, or shifting to drip irrigation, vertical farms or simple techniques that have enormous benefits. Clean your plate ?

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