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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  My friend told me about an executive she knows named Bill who's been with the company for more than 30 years and who, through his leadership and tough love mentoring, has developed two generations of world class supply chain managers.  That's a legacy that's going to outlast Bill.

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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

Industrial accidents can be devastating to the people and communities involved. Scientists are still trying to determine the long-term effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the immediate loss of life, such accidents can leave a lasting mark.

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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. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. of revenues).

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Why We Need Heretical, Holistic Green Thinking

Harvard Business Review

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. A tall order, maybe.