Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. In a nutshell, this means leveraging consumer, worker, and corporate power to drive change at the companies you do business with. A 2010 study showed that 80% of farm working women report experiencing sexual harassment.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

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. Perhaps the most powerful lever over inventory levels is predicting how much product customers will want, or what's called " demand planning." But inventory is not a minor issue.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The lack of traceability in our materials supply chain is almost archaic. What would make it impossible, they said, was if the companies further up the supply chain—the cattle ranchers and the slaughterhouses—were unwilling to go along with it. Crafting a Response. High Stakes Decision Making An HBR Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Globalization Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

They have the power to change the world. From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. A key target is providing housing and water supplies for the rural poor.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. External standards can also be a powerful tool in support of those efforts, helping companies strengthen ethics and compliance practices by offering a clear framework for action.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

They rendered the global power of the company useless because they could no longer leverage Nestle's massive supply chain or brands. The Right Fight , by Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, (HarperCollins, 2010) is available in book, e-book and audio formats.

Globalization 13

Globalization Beyer Supply Chain Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. Solar and wind power are becoming easy investments, but there are always new efficiency techs that may not be “in the money” yet, like on-site power storage. Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

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. In particular, an increase in asymmetrical risks requires a reevaluation of key issues from farmland to financial instruments, from nuclear power to the nation-state.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

So retailers manage their supply chains and overhead costs with a tight fist. The large UK retailer, owned by Wal-mart, lowered its 2010 expenses by over £70 million ($110 million) through energy and waste reduction throughout its retail footprint of 500 stores. Consider Asda.

Retail 15

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. First, technology imitation occurs far more quickly today than in the past, due in part to the global base of technology competitors and the speed of reverse engineering.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

These companies can help change the conversation — they have significant clout and reach, not just in Washington, but also through their extensive employee networks (millions of people), supply chains (hundreds of billions of purchasing), and marketing and social media machines (millions of tweeters).

Policies 8

Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For instance, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has recommended that the state's Department of Public Utilities issue a $16 million fine to National Grid for its response to power outages during Hurricane Irene in August 2011 and a snowstorm two months later.

Insurance 9

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The good news is that the Internet is now forcing change, by shifting power in the marketplace from seller to buyer. Customers, who have access to reliable information about the available choices and a capacity to interact with other customers, are now collectively have much more power than before.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

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. Total investment in new power generation is a good indication of where we're headed, and for the first time renewables beat fossil fuels globally.

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.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

All manufacturing is done locally to further control production and supply chain costs, resulting in razors and blade cartridges selling for 15 and 5 rupees , respectively (or about $0.30 To distribute the product, rather than forming strong relationships with a handful of powerful retailers as in the U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The President of the United States reportedly has assumed new powers to preserve, protect and defend America's digital infrastructures. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here.

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. This Power of Eight could be transformative. And Big Business did not even make those bets.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

It’s 50 times Walmart’s 2010 supply chain goal , and it sets a high bar for others to aspire to. Swedish clothing giant H&M set a “carbon positive” goal for its entire supply chain by 2040. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. ” I hope more business leaders in the U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The SEC has recognized this point; in 2010 it issued a planning document asking publicly traded companies to disclose their climate exposure risk. If that’s true, a strong nudge by government could encourage such a company to change its ways, resulting in better environmental and financial performance.

Company 9

Company Porter Forrester Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

losing power to Beijing. 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. His Carrier move may be in the right direction, but the Taiwan phone call is not.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

For example, Ford’s River Rouge plant not only assembled cars but also made its own steel, glass, fabrics, power, and cement on-site. But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. We wanted to find out.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

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. All of the signatories are meeting right now at the UN climate change conference in Morocco, and they’re making it clear that they are powering on.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. Stories are rhetorically far more powerful than references to elaborate economic models. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. distributors, retailers, and so on. Furthermore, U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8