Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Consequently, although companies should cut costs now, they should be on the lookout for the quick rebound that is likely to follow.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm). These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

System" is the key word, and it was top of mind during a recent HBR event in Palo Alto, sponsored by Hitachi, where I was moderating a panel on sustainable supply chains. Pepsi has rolled it out at hundreds of sites, and now is sharing it with supply-chain partners. What if oil cost $500 a barrel?" "Can

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. When eyeglass maker Warby Parker launched in 2010, its founders had $2,500 seed funding and impressive business school pedigrees. billion valuation within five years.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 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. Implement smart health care reforms: The retail industry is highly sensitive to rising labor costs and federal health coverage mandates will force many retailers to downsize their workforce.

Retail 12

Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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

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. having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented.

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. The repercussions of all this uncertainty are dramatic in terms of cost and material use. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". million bottles.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But the pacesetting style can also carry a high cost – Goleman notes that it “destroys climate [and] many employees feel overwhelmed by the pacesetter’s demands.” ” Instead simply doing more , sustaining our success as leaders requires us to redefine how we add value.

Goleman 13

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 13

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. America loves small businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Creative destruction carries transaction costs. Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. But it is a cost nonetheless. People lose their jobs. Cities dependent on a large employer suffer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

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.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Those losses stemmed not from poor product, marketing, or supply chain decisions but from regulatory violations, loss of business and fines resulting from bribery and fraud, and concomitant reputational damage. But how much do these hazards actually cost global companies in emerging markets? Those are the costs.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. Robots are gaining new capabilities at lower costs and are increasingly able to handle intricate work. but also the risks.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

And despite the many laws against corruption, and increases in enforcement of those laws, bribery in particular continues to thrive and the costs to business and to society continue to escalate. Since having laws on the books isn’t enough, anti-corruption and anti-bribery efforts need further traction from the private sector.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

So far, we’ve replaced 52% of the water we use in making our beverages and reducing water usage across our 800-plus bottling plants helps reduce the overall cost of production. In 2010 we joined forces to improve access to critical medicines. For example, we’re working to achieve water neutrality by 2020.

CEO 10

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 10

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. Can we invest in public-private R&D to bring the cost of batteries down even faster? Getting to 1.5 Can the government help build the charging infrastructure? Pathway two also likely takes us beyond the 2.0°C

Efficiency 11

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Moreover, not fixing the problem is quite likely to cost considerably more than addressing it. Droughts and floods also enter the risk picture for any company dependent on an agricultural supply chain. On the contrary, tackling climate change is an investment that pays off economically as well as socially.

Insurance 8

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. 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.

GDP 12

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Today, few firms monopolize the technologies on which they rely, and they can no longer absorb the total costs of radical innovation alone. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6%

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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

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. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. The average compensation that year of their 27.3

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

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. Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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

APRIL 16, 2012

And with a product that costs less than 3% of the Fusion ProGlide? The Guard uses 80% fewer parts, a plastic housing, and a single blade to minimize cost while preserving "good-enough" shaving performance. Only about six months after launching in October 2010, the Guard crossed 50% of razor market share by volume.

Innovation 14

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

manufacturing nearly tripled between 2005 and 2010, from 11% to 30% of plants. Furthermore, the costs of moving to the DDD frontier are not trivial, and may outweigh the benefits – particularly if the scale of operations is just too small. We find that the use of DDD in U.S. However, adoption has been uneven.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 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 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

The fewer resources available to regulatory and tax authorities and the smaller sizes of businesses jointly mean that when businesses make complex arrangements to rationalize their tax expenditures, their costs go up rather than down.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

We could endlessly debate the merits of the costs and benefits of specific regulations, but at the macro level, a law as important as the Clean Air Act not only is not expensive — it’s probably the most profitable regulation in human history. And that’s just direct health care benefits. will follow his lead.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.” The SEC has recognized this point; in 2010 it issued a planning document asking publicly traded companies to disclose their climate exposure risk.

Company 8

Company Porter Forrester Simon 8

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

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. We wanted to find out.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

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. These things are not theoretical and are costing business and society today. The Economics of Clean Tech. In short, Trump cannot stop all momentum on the clean economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8