Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

States and power companies can design their own way to compliance using a mix of onsite operational improvements and “beyond the fence” innovations, such as increased reliance on renewable energy sources, low-cost energy efficiency measures, and demand response, which compensates electricity customers for conserving energy.

Power 9

Power Planning Proposal Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015.

Banking 11

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Originally offered to just a few departments, the program is now company-wide, with more than half of all employees participating in 2011. Such volunteer assignments can do more than inject excitement into a humdrum job; they can ignite a career.

Participative 14

Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 Here are some of the most significant statistics that relate to your ability to do business: Only 2% of the businesses have a plan of any kind.

Budgeting 85

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 85

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Blog 384

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. To understand Dimon's blindness, let's look at a quick history of the trading debacle.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Risk management team. Statements.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

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.) After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. occurred in the last few years.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

In a good overview of these survey results published in the MIT Sloan Management Review , editor Nina Kruschwitz voices a legitimate concern that their findings don’t jibe with other reports lately, in particular an article in The New York Times titled, “ Industry Awakens to the Threat of Climate Change.” Risk management Sustainability'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

I fundamentally rejected that assumption, so I began a tour of our operations. We toured mines on four continents, studying global best practices in safety, and we also visited industrial operations outside the mining sector. But even after we’d agreed on what was safe, each of the stakeholders would need the capacity to manage safety.

Operations 8

Operations Industry CEO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems. This was not a new lesson, at least to the armed forces.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Wachter wrote in 2011 , a consensus has developed among academics that fraud on the market is “not just flawed, second-best, misdirected, or in need of improvement, but flat-out senseless, mindless, and reasonless.”. Economy Finance Risk management' As a result, University of Pennsylvania law professors William W.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8