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 18, 2012

The growth of social technology for sharing and learning. New social technology has improved collaboration, sharing, and learning about process improvement internally and externally. Now conversations are happening globally, and experiences and points of view are being shared much faster.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

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. The Global Digital Economy.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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. Our agenda focuses on: 1.

Retail 11

Retail Policies Supply Chain Health Care 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. That's right.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). Finally, certain problems are almost custom-made for global giants. The inspiring idea had clear potential to make a global impact.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

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. Only about six months after launching in October 2010, the Guard crossed 50% of razor market share by volume.

Innovation 13

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Previously, she was the vice president of Global Public Policy at Facebook. 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. Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

as global hegemon. 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. appears to have given up much of the economic benefits of high technology.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The inherently global nature of the internet and the opportunities it offers for mischief, manipulation and mayhem have apparently proven irresistible. Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here. Suppose, just as a thought experiment, that had been caused by a state-sponsored cyber-attack.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

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

APRIL 21, 2017

The world’s largest economy is governed by a president who has called global warming an “expensive hoax” on multiple occasions. For example, the Great Barrier Reef is dying fast, a harbinger of a dead global coral system, which could cost the world a trillion dollars and make the planet noticeably less rich and vital.)

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 10

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. Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

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.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

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. CEOs signed a letter to the president-elect that urged him to stay the course on global climate action and building the clean economy. The economics are too good.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8