Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

As more companies struggle to find their niche with the modern consumer, they’re turning to new technologies to recreate this sensory experience. To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? But other fields, like mining, construction, agriculture, and many types of manufacturing, have been largely ignored by start-up companies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Many midsized companies dream of joining the Fortune 500 someday or of becoming the next General Electric, Microsoft, or Amazon. But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Take Instagram, the San Francisco-based social media company.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 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. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). At the meeting were representatives from many of the world's largest consumer product (CPG) companies.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in. In addition, the many tools from the various methodologies (such as Lean and Six Sigma) are being combined by smart companies into a standard process toolkit. But improvement has improved.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S. from offshore.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increases in retail translate into the creation of new jobs all along the huge supply chain that brings products to store shelves. NRF is working to fix or repeal the provisions in the 2010 health care reform law that are hostile to the future of the retail industry.

Retail 11

Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China Economy Global business'

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. So, what should companies take away from this latest warning? First, companies must accelerate ongoing efforts to decarbonize their businesses. Getting to 1.5 What should they do ? auto industry.

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The new era will give manufacturing companies an opportunity to help their host economies in all of those areas; it will create high-skill jobs, particularly in design, big data, and other service roles, but not masses of production-line positions. All over the world, automakers are mastering new drive train technologies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Future Economy.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S. A Shift Abroad.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010. Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground. As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. The floods in Pakistan helped double the price of cotton.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 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 ). From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time.

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

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Decision-Making Processes.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. When viewed through the lens of the U.S.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

It starts as most such stories do — with a Western-based company trying to sell their cheapest products in emerging markets. But the vast majority of men below the pinnacle of the social pyramid, an estimated 400 million, still shaved with double-edge razors, a century-old technology that tends to cause far more cuts and bleeding.

Innovation 13

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. Companies can't — and shouldn't — unilaterally wage cyberwar on countries. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Some sectors and companies bear more of the up-front expense of tackling carbon emissions, with the energy sector being the most obvious one. But many studies have estimated that the reduction in health care costs saves the economy, and thus all companies and citizens within that economy, tens of trillions of dollars.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 10

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. These companies can be persuaded that doing more business in America is a smart business move.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights. Companies will continue to pursue sustainability in the United States because the macro forces driving the movement remain strong. government.

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. Immelt is right when he says big companies are distrusted; executives are distrusted too. distributors, retailers, and so on. Furthermore, U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8