Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 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 14, 2014

, their brand names become verbs (“to google” stands for “to search online”), and their products create completely new lifestyles (Apple iPad)? They establish meaningful, lasting connections between their products, people, and the world around them.

Long-term 8

Long-term Trends Brand Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. We also classified ads into four types: A direct-response ad with a product-focus, intended to showcase particular products and features. We also focused on five industries that represented $4.2

Advertising 10

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 10

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. 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.". chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

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. So what’s really new this year?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

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. Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 10

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.” One of the growth vectors they identified was moving into the production of high-end apparel that would be sold in department stores.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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. Take Action.

Golden Parachute 12

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. Walmart and Target demonstrated how this works by convening a Personal Care Products Sustainability Summit.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The rapid growth of natural gas production (the biggest energy story of the year) and the high-profile failure of one solar manufacturer (Solyndra) have confused people about the prospects for clean tech. In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

I met the team at Vineyard Vines while doing research about data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted , and was able to learn firsthand about the company’s beginnings, and what has made them so successful today. ” Of course, this type of real-time, one-to-one marketing is easier said than done.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 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. And do you have mechanisms in place that translate the strategy into personal goals and rewards for managers and employees?

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

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. “It’s tribal.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

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. will follow his lead.

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. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain. Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8