Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Ideally that sustainability could be achieved through market mechanisms — which would be possible if the products that took a bigger toll on the planet also cost more to buy in stores. The least responsible producers are the ones cutting costs and dangling the bargains that consumers can't resist reaching for.

Cost 8

Cost Productivity Products Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists’ interventions are often described, favorably or not depending on your point of view, as slashing and burning, taking out cost, and engaging in financial engineering. Now, you will have to translate your strategic thinking into a value creation plan that your management team and board will embrace.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

We are on the verge of a major upheaval in the way inventory is managed. In order to make effective use of this new data and to stay competitive, managers will need to redesign their supply-chain processes. For example, does use of these data-driven tools lower cost and/or enhance customer service? Why does this matter?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

Further, suppliers are often nervous about sharing information that reveals their cost structure with the people with whom they negotiate price. Ultimately, a whole systems view will be required to drive out unnecessary cost and carbon. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition offers a glimpse of one such effort.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a result, these retailers are cutting costs today, planting growth seeds for tomorrow, and setting the stage for accelerated strategic agility well into the future. So retailers manage their supply chains and overhead costs with a tight fist. The secret to the company's success at cost reduction? Grow Revenue.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. The first will be continued displacement by ever-more-competitive Chinese companies who compete on cost.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Until recently, determining who works when involved store managers manually slotting each employee into shifts on paper. As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. So what should retailers do?

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not rising costs. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

To get around that disadvantage, Zappos eliminated shipping costs and invested in a call center focused not on answering the highest volume of calls as quickly and efficiently as possible, but on establishing strong relationships with customers. Today, still under the marvelous management of Tony Hsieh, Zappos sales are well over $2 billion.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. If your company’s promise to its customer is lowest costs, is everyone focused on cost control? Yet change they must.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. Global business Risk management Supply chain'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 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. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Seven American solar-equipment manufacturers have claimed that their Chinese counterparts enjoy an unfair cost advantage in the form of subsidies. China will therefore manage to produce the steel it needs without relying on US imports. However, according to IHS iSuppli, Chinese producers add only $8, or 4%, to the cost.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Every year, weather variability is estimated to cost $630 billion for the U.S. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. alone, or 3.5% These instruments are not new.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

With the faulty shower in my hotel room, I wondered if management spent any time asking housekeeping for feedback. Would it have been helpful if the hotel's cleaning and maintenance personnel had a process to voice their observations and recommendations to management?

TQM 14

TQM Hotels Apparel Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Another indication that near-shoring is accelerating is the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The move to low-cost manufacturing in the 1990s was driven in part by cheap oil prices. As a result, logistics costs increased significantly compared to what they were when the decision was made. Labor costs. A value of 50.0

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

As the costs of things like phone calls and televisions have dropped, the cost for basic necessities like food and housing has soared. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change.

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Our research found they are one of the regions struggling most to establish great talent management practices, among them hiring, assessing, rewarding, and firing talent. If, in addition, companies are managing their underperformers out poorly, the costs rise even further. Global business Talent management'

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Start with a trial program, and expect to change the details as you go.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

costofweddings.com estimates that the average couple spends $24,000 per wedding, probably an underestimate once one adds up a year's worth of planning for apparel, beauty treatments (including weight loss), officiants and music, venues and catering, and numerous other services. Brilliant brand management is multi-media and cause-related.

CEO 16

CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. Non-governmental organizations have calculated that it would cost about $600 million per year to bring all Bangladeshi factories up to Western standards. to produce properly.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Walmart's success doesn't just stem from impressive logistics, aggressive vendor management and its position as a low-cost retailer. furniture or large appliances) where it has no cost advantage, or where new service capabilities might be required. He serves as chair of the firm's Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council.

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

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. And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. Sales/Becoming the Vendor of Choice. He's absolutely right.

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. And airlines are gearing up for a price war on trans-Atlantic routes as some low-cost carriers plan service between the U.S. telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers.

Price 14

Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

But CEOs can't rely on cost-cutting to keep their profit momentum going — it's gone about as far as it can at most companies. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries).

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Sectors calling for action included banking (Bank of America, Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo), the apparel industry (including Levi, Gap, Adidas, VF), and the World Economic Forum, which brought 79 CEOs together to urge action. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In the case of solar, vast investments in production capacity in China have quickly brought down the cost of panels — a jaw-dropping 65 percent slide in just 18 months. The cost of using renewable energy, either through power purchasing agreements that cost nothing up front or through direct investment, is dropping fast.

Energy 8

Energy Apparel Cost Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Among its intimate apparel store peers — who are in the business of helping women find the perfect undergarments through a sometimes thrilling and at other times exasperating process — Journelle stands out. Journelle in New York City is no ordinary store. From first quarter 2008 to 2009, bankruptcy filings leapt by 75%.

TSR 15

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Instead, leaders of these companies excel at five unconventional acts — management practices that contradict conventional wisdom. Second, many managers assume they should adopt the best practices of their industry and treat external benchmarking as the established path to success. First, these companies commit to an identity.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

She started an eponymous foundation focused on understanding a better way for the economy to manage its resources. We have three billion new middle class consumers coming into the world and there's more and more pressure to find out how to manage these resources. Energy costs are a huge concern for car manufacturers.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

In particular, many studies agree that a critical mass of women on boards — variously defined, but often somewhere around three women or 30% of the board — is positively correlated with performance measures like return on equity, Tobin''s Q, lower cost of debt, or quality of earnings.

Diversity 8

Diversity Proposal Apparel Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., An IBM study estimated that the average cost of a data breach is around $4 million. Additional responses from this second survey wave were predominantly concentrated in the Middle East, Asia, and Western Europe.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

These factors include China's rapidly rising labor costs, which we discussed in an earlier HBR blog ; the increased value of the yuan; the challenge of managing long-distance supply chains; the quality control concerns that continue to haunt many manufacturers that have offshored production; and the significantly higher productivity of U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

By leveraging connected mobile devices such as smartphones, existing in-venue Wi-Fi networks, low cost Bluetooth-enabled beacons, and a handful of other technologies, location analytics vendors have made it possible to get location analytics solutions up and running fast at a minimal cost.

Retail 9

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 9

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. ” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8