Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships. Yet change they must.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

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.". What would this leadership look like over time? food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Nina laughed.

Case Study 14

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Deep concerns about labor conditions, wages, and equity take root: From tragedies in Bangladeshi apparel factories to minimum wages in the U.S. Travesties like the death of more than 1100 workers at the Rana Plaza apparel factory in Bangladesh are increasingly unacceptable to the buying public. It’s hard to argue the point.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Our goal is to fuel your fire, but that''s only the beginning. Jake : I think most entrepreneurs would answer this question as being able to see someone else buy or wear their product. Question : CED recently expanded its product offering and target customer base. Every second. Every day," explains Jake, who also founded CED.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Setting the growth target. Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 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. Adam Pretty/Getty Images. It just does not work.” Execute the strategy.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

It’s increasingly strange to have to say this, but workers struggling to breathe are not productive , places without access to safe water, like Flint, Michigan — not to mention 3,000 other U.S. It’s 50 times Walmart’s 2010 supply chain goal , and it sets a high bar for others to aspire to.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8