Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost. The company knows that its customers are increasingly looking for providers that can offer reliable service at low cost — and low carbon emissions.

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. Fourth, a conventional company might try to reduce costs across the board by going lean everywhere.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

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. To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

The third was around thought leadership. The whole circular concept sounds daunting — there's quite a bit involved with an approach like that: reverse logistics, cost incursions, consumer awareness. We looked at the three biggest segments — packaging, food waste, and apparel. So the energy costs are not there either.

Company 9

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 9

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Judith Goldhaft employed the assistance of fabric designer and fellow hippie gal, Jodi Palladini, to create an apparel design that would permit San Francisco’s homeless women to sell their very own fabric creations.

Apparel 120

Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. The other type of metric, an “impact” metric, shows that the ship is actually going somewhere.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways. Are IT costs and agility what you want them to be? But some, such as brand synergy, are new to the CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. Can you improve profits by streamlining costs? Is revenue slowing for market leaders even as profit margins increase, as they exit the low end of the market and/or cut costs?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives. These are the seven areas: 1. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon? Competition Leadership Retail' Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Would you rather drive productivity that way or increase your labor costs by 10 percent? And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. Adam Pretty/Getty Images. It just does not work.”

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not rising costs. What would this leadership look like over time? consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

We could endlessly debate the merits of the costs and benefits of specific regulations, but at the macro level, a law as important as the Clean Air Act not only is not expensive — it’s probably the most profitable regulation in human history. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. will follow his lead.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yes, everyone would agree that we have serious economic policy issues at home about creating jobs, stimulating growth, increasing exports, improving education, investing in R&D, encouraging high-tech manufacturing — and about reconciling the cost of any governmental initiatives with significant debt reduction. Quality.

Offshoring 13

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. After 2015 shattered climate records , 2016 got even hotter and more extreme, creating weather events that brought physical destruction, massive economic costs, and loss of life.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

We found that directors of all political stripes care a lot about the economy and cybersecurity, and that Republican and Democrat directors are aligned in their concerns about political instability and healthcare costs, even though they may have conflicting views on how these costs should be contained.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8