Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Financial services companies co-manage loans and share risks. Competitors in the auto, computer, and apparel industries frequently rely on the same suppliers and distributors, and to keep them healthy need to make sure that the overall industry does well.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

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. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management.

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 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. Not long after she reached shore, she decided to do something about it.

Company 9

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 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. Create incentives.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

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). The best way is to design the right dialogs and data into the management process that governs your company's strategy and execution.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The Goldminer strategy will typically involve vertically integrated players (large institutions like insurers, hospitals, and physicians’ groups) creating medical value by better managing the health of the heaviest users of healthcare: the 30% of patients with complex conditions that comprise 75% to 80% of all medical spending.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As more people begin to see income inequality as a negative “externality” — an unintended but damaging consequence of decisions that businesses make to boost profits — how should managers respond? We have argued previously in HBR that companies can choose among three levels of embracing externalities. They can …. Take Ownership.

Golden Parachute 10

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Have you seen a featured snippet right on the top of the search engine results page – SERP? Pick an influencer of your niche – for instance, if you have an apparel brand, look for influencers who follow fashion. You can address the audience’s queries, complaints, and regularly host live sessions. Aim for Position ‘Zero’.

Marketing Strategy 67

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Until recently, determining who works when involved store managers manually slotting each employee into shifts on paper. Starbucks’ experience is common among a number of retailers who have taken their passion for engineering and optimizing schedules too far.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

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? Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. Late-night thinkers enjoyed a 1AM meal to refuel. The company wanted to make its banking services more enticing to millennials.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. It's not enough to change one company.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13