Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile. If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. It''s a great success story, but there''s a catch. They break under stress. and Washington Mutual?

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Even humanist change initiatives that were objectively dramatically successful have often been discarded by the firms that introduced them.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

” Instead simply doing more , sustaining our success as leaders requires us to redefine how we add value. Subsequent transitions may be more subtle and nuanced, such as when we go from leading front-line staff to leading managers, who themselves must navigate this same transition. ” Leadership'

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

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. And the success of large companies and growth start-ups often depend on a strong cluster of suppliers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. A 2010 study showed that 80% of farm working women report experiencing sexual harassment. So how can firms like yours get ahead of the curve and encourage reform across their own supply chain before they face activist pressure?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

While Black Friday and Cyber Monday were successful days for the retail sector, these two days alone are not a panacea to the sector's performance challenges. So retailers manage their supply chains and overhead costs with a tight fist. The secret to the company's success at cost reduction? Others will not.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

It developed an outstanding supply chain for fish and became a dining out routine for millions of Americans, especially on its famous “endless shrimp” days. But in recent years, as cold chains became more prevalent, almost all restaurants now serve fish, and Red Lobster’s comparative advantage has dwindled. screamed one blogger.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

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

MARCH 1, 2016

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

But there’s an often-overlooked factor that can make the difference between success and failure: a leader’s ability to go far outside the organization—mobilizing networks of critical expertise—to get help in solving problems. We know we want leaders who are smart, decisive, transformative, and possessed of a singular vision.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

According to recent McKinsey research (see " The $30 Trillion Decathlon "), consumption by developing economies could rise from $12 trillion annually in 2010 to $30 trillion in 2025, by which time these markets could account for nearly 70% of global demand for manufactured goods. The Dynamics of Global Manufacturing Are Shifting.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. The United States cannot rest on past success and take its multinationals for granted.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review. And the sustainability pedigree is going to require a huge amount of input from managers all along the supply chain — they're going to balk at that.

Case Study 9

Case Study Innovation Committee Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

Employees need to have time away from managers so that they can grow,” says Edinger. Manage your re-entry. Until this summer, Matthew Bellows hadn’t taken more than a few days’ vacation since 2010, when he launched Yesware, a Boston-based email productivity and tracking tool for salespeople. Case study #1: Trust your team.

Stress 11

Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

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. To get started on analyzing the impact of green on your business: Take a close look at your supply chain. Engage the entire supply chain.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 14

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 greening of the supply chain. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. business continuity").

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. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

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

MARCH 5, 2012

African-style hyper-entrepreneurship and excess diversification are so different from the standard models of business success that prevail in the West that I figured they must be the problem. My think-tank colleagues and I were stunned to see how many concurrent businesses the typical entrepreneur owns and manages in Africa.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? 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. is the improve the Venture Capital model, which yields a 10% success rate at best.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. The trick will be to put together enough success stories to scale up the effect on the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 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. In short, Trump cannot stop all momentum on the clean economy. The economics are too good. And, most critical, this economic reality holds even without subsidies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8