Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

The idea that companies should only maximize shareholder value has had a stranglehold on the business world for decades. In the fourth calendar quarter of 2011, Christmas shoppers snapped up 15 million iPads and 37 million iPhone 4Ss. So am I suggesting companies pursue unprofitable paths? It's time to rethink this assumption.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” It wasn’t just one company, though; the whole economy was slowed by the extremes and volatility we faced. The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. .” Diversity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

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. ” How’s this approach working so far? Lastly, make it official.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases should know that at some point the burgeoning impacts of climate change will prompt government to act, either at the federal or state level, or both. And any company can be subject to the physical impacts of climate change, whether or not they are big emitters.

Insurance 9

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Then I went to work for Nabisco following the Barbarians at the Gate leveraged buyout fiasco, and had to help rebuild the company. general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. (Our So I began a practice I've kept up to this day.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. With events like those that have changed the power dynamics throughout the Arab world, or the tsunami in Japan that disrupted many global supply chains, it's easy to think that the world is becoming ever more connected and interdependent. If so, you're in good company.

Globalization 15

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

This new attempt to encourage companies to lobby for climate action is gaining steam. More companies are taking a proactive role in climate policy, and for good reasons. Shouldn''t companies get involved now instead of waiting to see what governments come up with on their own?

Policies 8

Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries. As a result, companies of all sizes are increasingly hindered in efforts to bring new products and services to market by patent holders claiming infringement of even trivial features. patent litigation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. 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. It's a fair question.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. It's not a matter of training to choose option "A" or "B."

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Around the same time, the French beauty company, L’Oréal, said it would stop selling its flagship brand, Garnier, in the country. And Western Internet companies such as Yahoo!,

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But instead of spending hours in Best Buy or on Amazon comparing configurations and assembling the parts you needed, you could signal what you wanted and a company would create it for you. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. But, to put it bluntly, Porter's value chain is antiquated in the light of the social era.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. She also took the unusual step of installing three CMOs who could help provide detailed insights into three of the main business groups of the company. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The current Apple TV, as it stands, is a set top box that enables an end-run around the cable companies and lets us pipe movies and TV into our living rooms. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. There are a couple of candidates in Apple''s "big thing" category.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 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. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

As globalization has created longer and increasingly complex food supply chains, there has been a concomitant surge in demand for locally-sourced food. Some companies have ridden this wave. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. How can this be?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Knowledge of results is a powerful force in growing and learning. by Hank Moore.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The scene around my Connecticut home is not pretty, with downed trees and power lines everywhere. Take the example of one of my clients, a Fortune 200 consumer products company. As the VP of global risk management told me, the most expensive events in company history in every weather category (flood, earthquake, hail, wind, etc.)

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. Planning for the possibility of a severe earthquake and a subsequent tsunami were part of Japanese reliance on nuclear power. But for a significant period of time, responses from the company and the government were confusing.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Set your company up for success. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Machines improved the way companies email, call, offer a discount, recommend a product, show an ad, inspect flaws, and approve loans. in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. The impact on big companies. Structured data.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8