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. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

While getting accurate, timely carbon data from your own operations can be tough, gathering data from outside your four walls is a far greater challenge given the complexity and scale of most supply chains, and there's no well-defined way today to navigate it. Thinking of these as measurement or reporting tools misses the point.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 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. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes. Nurture and expand the best ideas.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

It’s become an essential tool for understanding online customer behaviors and driving site improvement efforts. Operations. Just as web analytics is an essential tool on the Web, location analytics will become a must-have for designing, managing, and measuring offline experiences.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In a study of 41 stores of a women’s apparel retailer , for example, Saravanan Kesavan and his co-authors found that all of the stores were understaffed significantly during the peak periods of the day, while they were significantly overstaffed during the rest of the hours. A lot of flexibility isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Software 8

Software Management Retail How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. New levels of transparency — What’s in this?

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

This year, there were countless eco-efficiency stories about companies saving millions of dollars and developing new tools to make buildings, fleets ( Staples and UPS, for example ), and manufacturing much leaner. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. Company Stories.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. More organizations are using some old tools like “ treasure hunts ” and reimagining them as “ energy marathons ” (26.2 days of innovation).

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8