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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. As a company, managing your supply chain, organizing shipments and coordinating your efforts with other companies takes a lot of planning and effort.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain.

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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  I've been in Florence this week to speak to newly promoted executives of a global energy company.  Posted by: Gayle Ely | November 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM I worked with a supervisor in the National Park Service.   They've set the standard in their discipline for their industry and others. . 

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Preventing Another Bangladesh Tragedy: Three Ways to Transform Supply Chain Ethics

Harvard Business Review

We know that we are somehow complicit in the moral chain that links our cheap clothes with collapsing factories, but we feel powerless to respond. So here are three radical suggestions for transforming the field of supply chain ethics. The truth is that the world is complicated, and supply chains are tangled and dynamic.

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One Cost of Increased Globalization: More Industrial Accidents

Harvard Business Review

Scientists are still trying to determine the long-term effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a recent study, we examine one crucial, yet overlooked, factor: economic globalization. We gathered the globalization data from the KOF, a Swiss research institute that specializes in applied economics.

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Three Traps Facing New Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

But for most rising executives, leading successfully in global markets is easier said than done. Recently, I spoke with Linda Sharkey , an author and expert in global leadership development and culture change, to chat with me about this issue. Think about Disney when they first tried to go global in the 1990s. How about you?

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

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. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010.