Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. In today’s dynamic business environment, leaders of large established companies need more than ever to run and reinvent the business at the same time. Why does this happen to large companies with a legacy of success?

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. That’s straightforward enough.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. Because it can.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Customer experience creators.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. Many activists are asking some very tough and fundamental strategic questions: Are the company’s investments in the right place? Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? What is our company great at doing?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

How can we overcome these free rider problems, to make sure companies are incentivized to have a more positive societal impact? Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. Financial services companies co-manage loans and share risks. Notably, you'll find the most significant erosion of competition within companies.

Apparel 14

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

manufacturing companies, defined as firms that have their headquarters in the United States, responded. companies responded that they were “definitively” planning to do so. based companies and 33 non-U.S.-based based companies responded — were very similar. One-hundred fifty-six U.S. While 33.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the last few years, our company Mathison , has been leading global research on the hiring practices of hundreds of employers, authoring the first book in our space, Hiring for Diversity and developing holistic technology to help employers identify gaps in their hiring process, define their strategy, and equip the entire team to take action.

Diversity 98

Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

When it comes to digital engagement, many companies feel they have to choose either transactions or relationships. ” Focus on the relationship and forget the transaction, and you waste the company’s resources. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. They said, ''This kid is a fad.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

We know this approach can work because we''ve seen it: We studied a large corporation that was being split into two public companies for which two new boards had to be created. The chairman wanted to create two balanced boards, with the mix of skills, knowledge, and experience each company needed.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. The passion was infectious.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. To get a clearer, more-complete picture, we studied actual decisions made by 1,500 apparel and footwear shoppers in the United States. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

Apparel 9

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. China, China, and China. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

When brothers Shep and Ian Murray cut their ties with Corporate America to start a little company on Martha’s Vineyard in 1998, their motivation was clear : “We’re making neck ties so we don’t have to wear them.” Enter Fayez Mohamood and his team at Bluecore, a retail marketing automation platform.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Any company building an online presence wouldn’t think twice about the need for sophisticated web analytics. Despite its success online, relatively few companies with physical venues employ advanced analytics solutions that track customer behaviors in their physical spaces. Operations. This is changing fast, however.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

This data can be used by material-management systems to control ordering and distribution of products throughout a company’s extended supply chain. Use of this relationship can lead to better operational performance. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

But instead of adopting multiple martial art styles, more B2C companies are using mixed business models, or MBM, to win. Technology companies have done this particularly well. Disney's business models span the media, entertainment, toy, apparel, and travel industries. MMA is the sport of fighting.".

Business Model 9

Business Model Advertising Retail Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Since the pace of marketing is now determined by everyone with access to the internet or a mobile device who can gleefully tweet, post, or blog their feelings and experience, customers can instantaneously become an extension of your company’s story—for good or bad. “It’s tribal. ” Read More from Microsoft.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

After a lengthy New York Times story , the company decided to adjust some of their controversial scheduling practices, eliminating “clopening” — when workers are required to close at night and re-open in the morning — and requiring at least a week’s notice of upcoming schedules. So what should retailers do?

Software 8

Software Management Retail How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Some sectors and companies bear more of the up-front expense of tackling carbon emissions, with the energy sector being the most obvious one. But many studies have estimated that the reduction in health care costs saves the economy, and thus all companies and citizens within that economy, tens of trillions of dollars.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. But I also ran across a few specific company stories that were just really compelling or cool.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital.

Offshoring 12

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Every year, I find big themes or specific company stories that I feel are impressive, important, or indicative of where the world is going. It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Then came 2016. Trump Shocked the World.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

It was an odd year for green business, and it began with some mixed signals about how far companies were coming on sustainability. Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company. We also found that industry matters.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8