3M's output of new product launches tumbled in the years before CEO Bill Brown took the helm. Brown set a strategy of boosting new product launches, and the results have been impressive. In 2025, 3M ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3M announced earlier this month that it's phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they're not going away. The "forever ...

Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to ...

3M is getting a lot of bad press about the legal liability surrounding earplugs it sold to the U.S. military. The product liability issue facing 3M is big and could end up costing the industrial giant ...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — 3M has announced it’s phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they’re not going away. The “forever chemicals” — known collectively as per- and polyfluorinated substances, or ...

Industrial giant 3M has been buffeted by legal and regulatory issues. The company's legal problems got so bad that management needed to spin off its crown jewel medical assets to raise capital. At ...

In August 2024, 3M (NYSE: MMM) CEO Bill Brown diagnosed one of the industrial giant's core problems just a few months after taking the helm. A years-long slide in innovation, as measured by new ...