Whirlpool Corporation has a very sophisticated talent management process, using traditional talent pool tools such as the 9-Box to rate and calibrate top talent.
For many years, HUL (Hindustan Unilever Ltd.) has sent young managers to spend 8 weeks or more, living in a remote rural village in India as part of its entry-level leadership training bootcamp.
Sustainability is a powerful way to generate innovation at Danone, producing creativity through presenting new problems to solve, establishing big goals that force people to think differently and fost
Every 6 months, all managers in Hindustan Unilever Ltd. put their day jobs on ice to focus on one of the two things that really matter - the consumer and the customer.
The following is an excerpt from Gary Hamel's forthcoming book, What Matters Now , to be published in December 2011 by Jossey-Bass Business. In 1997 I bought an e-tablet from A.T. Cross, the pen company. Codeveloped with IBM, the CrossPad was hailed as a breakthrough product that would open up a...
What do kids know about creating a company anyway? Well, 3 24-yr old Brown University ('08) grads didn't know how to do it the "right" way, so they did it their way.
3M takes its Markets of the Future process from a cloistered analysis by corporate strategists to a global Web 2.0-enabled event, tapping the collective insight of 20,500 3Mers in over 60 countries.&n
