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Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.
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. Germany, not really the sunniest country in the world, added 1% of its electric needs in solar in 2010 alone (it took 10 years to get the first 1% online, and just 8 months for the second 1%). trillion by 2020.
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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. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.".
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. Lifecycle analysis isn't new, of course.
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. In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 9, 2018
degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.
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