Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

And companies also have to be prepared to not only attract, recruit and retain top talent — but diverse top talent. Our research found that companies are doing a very poor job leveraging diversity in their workforces. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.".

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. According to Gail Baugh, president of PeopleWearSF, an alliance of sewn-product-industry professionals, the apparel industry can use many discarded materials for textiles. This lifts his spirits and inspires talented people to join his team. Build collective clout.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

So can designing new kinds of incentives, recognizing and rewarding the behaviors you want to encourage, and bringing in new, more diverse viewpoints and types of talent to the company. But creating new places where people can gather to work on projects — subcultures within the larger culture — can be constructive.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others. Are there difficult moves that must be made to create a winning strategy?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fostering diversity in demographics is one pathway boards can use to ensure that a wide range of viewpoints and areas of expertise is represented. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., How Boards Can Foster Innovation.

Innovation 11

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal.

Organization 14

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Global companies have realized in the last few years that strategies such as outsourcing and off-shoring have significantly increased risk because their supply chain is geographically more diverse and, as a result, exposed to all sorts of potential problems. For high tech industries (e.g.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2023

A Better Balance, a national advocacy organization, played a pivotal role in spearheading this movement, working tirelessly alongside a diverse coalition of partners, worker advocates, and maternal health champions.

Apparel 98

Apparel Environment Proposal Diversity 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. The great urbanist Jane Jacobs once remarked that “diversity is natural to big cities.” They make modifications to dresses in real time under enormous deadline pressures.

Fashion 8

Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Virgin has taken an entirely different tack from Starbucks by directly expanding its corporate brand into an incredibly diverse set of industries. Separation also allows the Alphabet brand to serve as an umbrella brand over a diverse portfolio of individual brands.

Brand 8

Brand Banking Apparel Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Even though these sectors also qualified as “clean energy,” the capabilities they required were too diverse to manage. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. Kenneth Andersson. That’s a group assessment,” Berns says. “How big could this be?

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways. The CIO of an apparel company participates in digital decisions and supports digital initiatives while keeping the company''s traditional IT unit running smoothly. The answer is not obvious, but it''s well worth considering.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This kind of innovation around food waste is part of the larger discussion going on in many sectors, from apparel to electronics and metals, about how we can build a more circular economy with zero waste. Offering these unloved items in juices or as-is for 30% off has been a big winner for the company.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Diversity and in-depth content allow you to convert visitors into prospects and then customers. Pick an influencer of your niche – for instance, if you have an apparel brand, look for influencers who follow fashion. Create infographics, podcasts, along with text, to improve the versatility of your content marketing initiatives.

Marketing Strategy 68

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization. .”

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Empathy is the foundation of inclusive design in that when we understand human motivations on a universal scale, we design for a broader, more diverse audience. Learn from diversity by putting people at the center, and to solve for one and extend to many in order to create experiences and solutions that benefit people universally.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. election, many CEOs felt the need to email employees, restating their commitment to diversity and inclusion. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain. ” Millennials feel even stronger. .”

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Overall, directors from both sides are bringing diverse strengths to the table. Why does all this matter?

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8