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. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. New research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute makes it clear that Africa faces real economic headwinds including declining investment and savings, and rising government indebtedness. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The Economist bemoans their “ great deceleration ” and HBR featured a well-researched study on how multinationals are becoming less global. In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% But the impact of the industry on Brazil’s natural resources — and global GHG emissions — has been intense. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Coca-Cola operates in more than 200 countries and the needs of each market depend on a variety of factors. Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused. It can be difficult to measure and compare.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable. And according to a market study by Technavio, the global wet shave market is expected to reach $31.41

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

And in 2010, Greenpeace attacked Nestlé with a viral video over its use of unsustainable palm oil. You can easily reach Dave Stangis, Campbell''s Soup''s CSR lead on Twitter, where he talks about the company''s initiatives as well as global sustainability issues.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another. corporate boards. of the U.S. companies had all-male boards.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It's like a new global telephone network, except that, rather than carry voice and data, its "content" is personal profiles and connections; rich media; real-time messaging; and an endless array of features, functions, and third-party apps. Of the top five terms in 2010, two were "Facebook.com" and "Facebook Login."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

By 2008 it had attracted 33,000 applications; by 2010 that number had risen to more than 550,000. That year it set up a cross-functional committee drawn from IT, sales, marketing, and finance to map out its path to becoming what the company later called "the enablers of global e-commerce."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. The Irish economy of the 70s was much smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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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. Unfortunately for every other country, this is a global story. GM announced that 62 of its plants now send zero waste to landfill , and UK retailer Marks & Spencer reached a 92% diversion rate on the way to its zero goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Even better.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Developing the Global Leader. “I see the move toward customer-centricity as a journey,” explains Gulati. “It doesn’t happen overnight. And what are the benchmarks of success?

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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 ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ).

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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. For example, the retailer was able to migrate to automatic HVAC systems for better insulation and adjust store timings to optimize energy usage.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause. billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is perhaps the purest expression of the blending of the digital and physical worlds of retail. Now, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yet the reality is that data centers are essential — not just to tech businesses but to any organization that uses the internet to operate (that covers nearly all of them, doesn't it?). But renewable energy wasn't," said Dean Nelson, eBay's senior director of Global Foundation Services. The solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

relationship with China, it’s important to recognize that global macroeconomic headwinds are moving against Trump and his efforts to generate jobs for a working-class constituency. The companies to focus on would be those that import heavily from China, such as big retailers like Walmart or branded orchestrators like Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. In the U.S.,

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