Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. And this is the digital work crisis.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). 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. Goals matter.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. It does not just manage to get a brand into a customer’s consideration set; it powerfully influences which aspects of that brand the customer notices and experiences.

Apparel 9

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. 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.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. What Is Discovery Driven-Planning?

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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

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

JANUARY 28, 2014

Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. As with other sustainability issues, the social and business consequences are inseparable. They can …. Take Ownership.

Golden Parachute 12

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 12

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 10

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. 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. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

It was Schultz who famously said “You can walk into [any type of retail store] and you can feel whether the proprietor or the merchant or the person behind the counter has a good feeling about his product. Cost isn’t an exogenous variable to be managed—it is the investment in doing the most important things well.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

How do some brands manage to resonate so strongly with the public that they seem to get woven into the fibers of culture? They establish meaningful, lasting connections between their products, people, and the world around them. That’s why they outlast fads like cronuts, Silly Bandz, and Angry Birds.

Long-term 8

Long-term Trends Brand Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. In 2015, Real Madrid had a lofty goal in mind: to thrill its supporters by allowing them to participate in unbelievable experiences. In sports, every second matters.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 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 14

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. Debates about climate change melted away.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8