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. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". But inventory is not a minor issue. That's a lot of capital tied up in warehouses.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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. He revamped his role, delegating almost all of the tasks on his to-do list to his senior managers and had them do the same to their direct reports.

Goleman 14

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

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

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

OCTOBER 24, 2012

After all, no matter how green a company's operations and supply chains are, political efforts aimed at weakening environmental laws and regulations can have far greater environmental impact. A full list of our comparisons is reported in our recent Newsweek/Daily Beast article "What Green Rankings Don't Tell You." ).

CPA 8

CPA Supply Chain Politics Policies 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 8

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 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 25, 2011

pipeline explosion in September 2010. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report that cited multiple failures by PG&E and government regulators. This plays out daily in product failures, supply chain disruptions, frauds, missed sales forecasts and more. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) estimated that 47.6

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

In the World Economic Forum''s Global Risks 2013 report, the respondents named "rising greenhouse gas emissions" as the third most likely risk to the global economy (after inequity and deficits/debt). When the climate bill featuring this policy failed to pass through Congress in 2010, USCAP became quasi-defunct.

Policies 8

Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 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

AUGUST 14, 2014

It may be tempting to bring a small amount of work with you — a bit of reading, a short report to draft — on the theory you’ll get it done on the plane or lounging on the beach. A few years ago, Peggy Hill, then the vice president of supply chain for an outdoor industry company, went on a weeklong beach vacation.

Stress 11

Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

A recent study by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce reports that the college premium has increased over the past decade, from 75 to 84 percent. After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. to emerging economies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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 3, 2016

manufacturing nearly tripled between 2005 and 2010, from 11% to 30% of plants. Yet even among plants that are, on paper, likely adopters, only a minority had adopted DDD by the end of our sample period in 2010. Our initial line of inquiry delves into the spread of data-driven decision making, or “DDD” for short.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

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 Only about six months after launching in October 2010, the Guard crossed 50% of razor market share by volume.

Innovation 14

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 14

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

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. A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

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

APRIL 21, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who as recently as last month has reported not believing that human activity or carbon dioxide are primary contributors to climate change, contradicting 150 years of basic physics and decades of scientific consensus. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. will follow his lead.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 10

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

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” distributors, retailers, and so on.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8