Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

According to a PRWeek/Barkely PR Cause Survey in 2010, two-thirds of brands now engage in cause marketing, up from 58% in 2009. Those boards that close the focus gap on CSR will bring strategic insights to their CEOs.". Marketing experts agree.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Companies have to keep much more inventory, since going out of stock is really unpleasant to explain to consumers, your CEO, or, say, Wal-Mart. But inventory is not a minor issue. As Robert F.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

They rendered the global power of the company useless because they could no longer leverage Nestle's massive supply chain or brands. Saj-nicole Joni , chief executive of Cambridge International Group, is a confidential advisor to CEOs and top executives worldwide. Which one is most common in your company today?

Globalization 14

Globalization Beyer Supply Chain Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

pipeline explosion in September 2010. Organizations have lots of built in excuses — functional silos, product silos, geographic silos, communication, chain of command, budget allocations and codes, turf, "before my time." This plays out daily in product failures, supply chain disruptions, frauds, missed sales forecasts and more.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The model involved an innovative combination of direct marketing through billboards and leaflets; diagnostic camps where technicians would screen scores of patients in an afternoon; changes to the supply chain to lower the cost of the pacemaker for selected hospitals; and the world’s first loan program for an implantable medical device.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Poor performance has led to the departure of its CEO and plenty of critical attention in the business pages. In 2010, I wrote an HBR article predicting increased interest in supply-chain transparency: firms needed to develop strategies for knowing and explaining where stuff comes from.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. The CEO must shift the culture toward one that prizes execution just as much as sales.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

LEVINE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear from the beginning that building a sustainable future is foundational to Facebook’s mission of bringing the world closer together. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey [PDF] on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. To get started on analyzing the impact of green on your business: Take a close look at your supply chain. Engage the entire supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). The greening of the supply chain. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.".

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape quipped, “If we have data, let’s look at data. manufacturing nearly tripled between 2005 and 2010, from 11% to 30% of plants. Yet even among plants that are, on paper, likely adopters, only a minority had adopted DDD by the end of our sample period in 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

It’s 50 times Walmart’s 2010 supply chain goal , and it sets a high bar for others to aspire to. Swedish clothing giant H&M set a “carbon positive” goal for its entire supply chain by 2040. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. ” I hope more business leaders in the U.S.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. Many CEOs would love to be cast in a pro-American light, even if it costs a few pennies of quarterly earnings.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. A week before the election, the CEO of General Mills, Ken Powell, spoke about his commitment to acting on climate. In short, Trump cannot stop all momentum on the clean economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7%

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8