Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Regardless of the cause, the cost to society of extreme weather has been rising for decades. The problems and costs of extreme weather are the same either way. After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. I'd say no. First, the "no" part.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

This perspective is a shift from existing strategy perspectives as it affects nearly every major decision a company makes, from growth initiatives, portfolio strategy, and M&A opportunities to its approach to budgeting and cost cutting. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Actually, "used" doesn't quite convey it: They cost $29 each. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120. I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation. Everyone knows the story.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Conversations, not chains. With shared purpose, alignment happens without coordination costs.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Instead, it will be about costs and patient outcomes: quicker recoveries, fewer readmissions, lower infection rates, and fewer medical errors, to name a few. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But when the capital requirements to enter markets have declined, the marginal cost of reaching consumers is effectively zero, and one-off production is not hard to do. Everything that is undifferentiated is going to be delivered in ever more efficient, low-cost ways. being big offers a much smaller advantage than it used to.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. Without changes in strategy, firms operating subsidiaries in Egypt may face the need for substantial write-offs.

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” “Often there are factors related to manufacturing costs, potential drug interactions, and other factors which research scientists aren’t aware of.”

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

While marketing budgets have been steadily rising as a percentage of firm budgets since 2011, many CMOs still lack real authority over decisions that most affect the customer, since most are delivered through touch points not owned by marketing. This will probably happen if you don’t do that.’ That was very helpful.”.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

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. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” They are becoming costs of doing business that must be paid by all but provide distinction to none.” But Walmart changed not only how supply chains, product decisions, and pricing worked, but how they related to each other.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8