3M Company at Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference Transcript

Sep 15, 2026 / 02:45PM GMT
Christopher Snyder
Morgan Stanley - Analyst

So, Bill, it's been now almost 2 years since you've been in the job. Notwithstanding a market and a macro that has been somewhat unforgiving, I guess, what would you say have been some of your biggest successes and real learnings over the last 12 months or so?

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William Brown
3M Company - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

Well, thanks for having me. It's great to be back. Congratulations on your new role. So again, it's about 2.5 years at 3M. The team is making, I think, great progress building fundamentals, improving how we execute, the consistency in how we execute. So the first 2.5 years were really around just a back-to-basics focus on fundamentals approach across operations and all of our supply chain, across innovation, across commercial, doing commercial excellence.

I think, importantly, also building a culture of accountability and rigor and speed and urgency, things I think go hand in hand with good day-to-day execution. And I think when you look at the

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