Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 5, 2011
As a result, these retailers are cutting costs today, planting growth seeds for tomorrow, and setting the stage for accelerated strategic agility well into the future. So retailers manage their supply chains and overhead costs with a tight fist. The secret to the company's success at cost reduction? Consider Asda. Grow Revenue.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Seven American solar-equipment manufacturers have claimed that their Chinese counterparts enjoy an unfair cost advantage in the form of subsidies. However, according to IHS iSuppli, Chinese producers add only $8, or 4%, to the cost. The manufacture of apparel and shoes could move quickly out of China, though.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2011
costofweddings.com estimates that the average couple spends $24,000 per wedding, probably an underestimate once one adds up a year's worth of planning for apparel, beauty treatments (including weight loss), officiants and music, venues and catering, and numerous other services. In the U.S., Events are double-edged swords.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2013
So in 2010, I started this foundation and coined the "circular economy" term to help frame the concept. The whole circular concept sounds daunting — there's quite a bit involved with an approach like that: reverse logistics, cost incursions, consumer awareness. Energy costs are a huge concern for car manufacturers.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
In the case of solar, vast investments in production capacity in China have quickly brought down the cost of panels — a jaw-dropping 65 percent slide in just 18 months. Portugal transformed its electric grid from 17 percent renewables to 45 percent in just five years (as of 2010). I'd suggest running the numbers again.
Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 12, 2016
Judith Goldhaft employed the assistance of fabric designer and fellow hippie gal, Jodi Palladini, to create an apparel design that would permit San Francisco’s homeless women to sell their very own fabric creations. This, at a time when most Americans had no idea what yogurt was.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2016
I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. percent of US employees are engaged at work.
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