Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The Economy in 2018. Investing in the supply chain. Supply chains are undergoing a transformation in almost every industry we study. Wayfair, the online retailer of home goods, is building out a dedicated supply chain optimized to fit the bulky, low-value-to-weight characteristics of its product line.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Digital business reached a tipping point in 2018 as organizations scaled their digital capabilities. Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2018 “Future of Jobs” report, many current organizational roles are likely to be disappear as early as 2022, only to be replaced by new organizational roles. Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images. You may already be seeing these changes in your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

These include access to digital goods and services, being part of global supply chains, accelerating and partaking in the fruits of innovation, and helping citizens access information, entertainment, and connectivity on a worldwide basis. Data Is Deglobalizing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. According to the 2018 State of Remote Work , loneliness is the biggest struggle to working remotely. Joe Granato, the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Mountain Equipment Co-op, told me that he believes it should be mandatory to find the budget to gather in person.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Amazon also leveraged its growing strength in the publishing supply chain as well as a reputation for superior customer service to create and dominate the e-book business, dispatching prior and future competitors. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

could become the world’s largest oil producer in 2018, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. Analysts have predicted that U.S. How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that China, the UAE, and Sweden are experiencing dramatic gains in their faith in institutions while the United States has seen a drop of 37 points. In countries like India, South Africa, Italy, and the United States, institutional trust is declining. But this is not a global trend.

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How To Supply Chain Globalization Meyer 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

On January 21, 2018, the teams faced off against each other in their Conference Championship. Our approach reminds us of how the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New England Patriots, two competitors in the same conference of the National Football League, collaborated through joint practices and scrimmages during pre-season camps in 2017.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

million new jobs to be created in the SME sector by 2018 will be created by woman-owned SMEs. Coca-Cola sees five thousand women entrepreneurs as part of its global supply chain by 2020. In countries like Kenya, so called "SMEs" (Small and Medium Enterprises) like this are responsible for 80% of all employment. And in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Gartner predicts that by 2018, advanced NLG will be integrated into the majority of smart data discovery platforms and that 20% of business content will be generated by machines. Not surprisingly, the executives who run these chains are pretty focused on data. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Brought together more than 150 organizations and 615,000 employees for candid conversations through the coalition’s Day of Understanding on December 7, 2018. One of the core commitments within the CEO Action pledge is to create a trusting workplace open to complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Now for the company-level stories: Supply chain pressure continues to rise (a.k.a., Even coming out of the recession, this was a big year for green supply chain announcements. In February, Wal-Mart said it would eliminate 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from its supply chain. trillion by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Swedish retailer H&M recently said it would pay a “living wage” to 850,000 workers in its supply chain by 2018 – a somewhat vague, but important announcement. Walmart is phasing out 10 toxic chemicals in the products on its shelves, and HP set a carbon reduction goal of 20% for its supply chain.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Source: IAEA Top News Published on 2018-11-19 Cells require background levels of radiation for normal growth Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Research by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Dr. Hugo Castillo that challenges conventional thinking about the impacts of low-level. Sustaining Nuclear. Operating Events.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. Renegotiating NAFTA. The status quo persists. YOY in 2017–2018.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

He triggered investigations in April 2017, yet the exact “steel” and “aluminum” products on his tariff list weren’t made public until mid-February 2018. And lengthy supply chains mean many American companies will only discover the hard way their costs have gone up. But it is also counterproductive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

If these events occur, they would severely disrupt multinationals’ market strategies, supply chains, and exchange-rate assumptions. Latin American subsidiaries are being held to more-aggressive sales and profitability targets in 2018, given a rebounding 2.7% Latin America: Potential Populist Backlash in Mexico and Brazil.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

dollars for companies such as Pepsi , political meddling and price controls, supply chain disruptions, and inability to repatriate profits. The reasons for this include Venezuela’s plummeting currency, which has resulted in losses in the billions of U.S. In this case, civil confrontation and an embargo by the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Economy in 2018. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt. (Fink, to his credit, has been talking about long-termism for years.) The question, then, is: why now? Why are more and more mainstream players taking this seriously?

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