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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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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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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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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.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. during the assembly. The case is clear. of the time.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

Midtown Atlanta is an example of the growing trend of companies relocating major research facilities to be near urban universities that provide mixed-use amenities, lively places, and a high density of firms. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display.