Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Sometimes this transition is obvious and dramatic, such as when we’re promoted and obtain our first direct reports or hire our first employees. Leadership That Gets Results” provides a useful roadmap here, highlighting the styles that have the greatest positive impact or are used less frequently by managers.).

Goleman 14

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

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. So managing inventory well is both a financial win and a sustainability victory. For example, using both demand sensing software and good management practices, P&G has cut 17 days and $2.1

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

The Corporate Leadership Council reports that highly engaged organizations have the potential to reduce staff turnover by 87% and improve performance by 20%. According to a PRWeek/Barkely PR Cause Survey in 2010, two-thirds of brands now engage in cause marketing, up from 58% in 2009. Marketing experts agree.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. 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. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F)

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The fan mail was from Greenpeace supporters reacting to a newly released Greenpeace report about deforestation in the Amazon. The lack of traceability in our materials supply chain is almost archaic. It’s called a supply chain for a reason: There are a lot of links—ranchers, slaughterhouses, tanneries.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Globalization Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Consider that in India in 2016, nearly seven in 10 citizens reported paying a bribe to access basic public services such as public schools, public clinics or hospitals, access to official documents, and utilities, according to Transparency International. and $2 trillion globally.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In partnership with research firms Trucost and Sustainalytics, companies are ranked based on their management, performance, and transparency in the environmental domain. A full list of our comparisons is reported in our recent Newsweek/Daily Beast article "What Green Rankings Don't Tell You." ). This finding is unfortunate.

CPA 8

CPA Supply Chain Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Last week, we at New America’s Better Life Lab published what we believe is a novel, forward-thinking report on the reality that harassment is “severe, pervasive, and widespread” across low and high income jobs and male- and female-dominated occupations. We also published an accompanying toolkit, called #NowWhat ?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Munich Re reports that natural disasters in 2011 caused insurance companies to substantially spend down cash reserves, with payouts exceeding premiums in the US by 16%. Droughts and floods also enter the risk picture for any company dependent on an agricultural supply chain. What risks does it pose for this company?"

Insurance 9

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Those losses stemmed not from poor product, marketing, or supply chain decisions but from regulatory violations, loss of business and fines resulting from bribery and fraud, and concomitant reputational damage. Our survey found that the vast majority (83%) of these companies have suffered significant losses since 2010.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

Employees need to have time away from managers so that they can grow,” says Edinger. If managers haven’t enabled employees, the team will feel stress, and so will the leader on vacation, because he won’t trust the team’s decisions,” says Achor. Manage your re-entry. Leave projects behind. Case study #1: Trust your team.

Stress 11

Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, such plans will have to adapt to actual events, but without a robust plan, "seat of the pants" crisis management won't work. Yet, neither BP and the U.S. Public or Private Responsibility?

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Growing opportunities to collect and leverage digital information have led many managers to change how they make decisions – relying less on intuition and more on data. How quickly are managers actually making the investments and process changes required to embrace decision-making practices rooted in objective data?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

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. Google's failed effort to acquire Groupon for a reported $6 billion (!) Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. We wanted to find out.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. Furthermore, U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8