Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

And big companies, like elephants, have long memories. Many long-timers can remember — and will happily detail in meetings — all of the “historical attempts [at innovation] that didn’t pan out – and it may just not have been the right time,” says Stacey Butler, director of innovation at NRG Energy.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Many chase market share they'll never get. A lot of companies throw money at the problem — more R&D, more marketing, more sales people. The problem with investing in organic growth is that the costs hit the books before the revenues do, creating a tension between short-term profitability and long-term growth.

Retail 10

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Instead, leaders of these companies excel at five unconventional acts — management practices that contradict conventional wisdom. They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. First, these companies commit to an identity.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. ” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a., points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

And how would we know that we are on the right track if we couldn't define ourselves largely in terms of being better than others? In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more.

Apparel 14

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

From the outset, all three men viewed themselves as serving in multiple roles: founder, custodian, brand manager, chief financial officer, recruiter, and head of consumer insights. For the budding entrepreneur, a good starting point is to create a qualitative understanding of market drivers. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Chief Financial Officer Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes, the measures managers use to guide their decisions stop making sense. Here's the upshot of that: because TV executives are encouraged to manage to that measure, they achieve better performance on paper but worse—wait for it—in reality. It's a positive externality management has decided to measure and make known.

Meyer 12

Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Not so fast.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

These factors include China's rapidly rising labor costs, which we discussed in an earlier HBR blog ; the increased value of the yuan; the challenge of managing long-distance supply chains; the quality control concerns that continue to haunt many manufacturers that have offshored production; and the significantly higher productivity of U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors. If your company has wildly different digital marketing activities for each brand or region, you know what I mean. The CDO''s job is to turn the digital cacophony into a symphony.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

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. Some have gone so far as to cap the highest salaries they will pay in terms of ratios to the lowest. They can ….

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Not long after she reached shore, she decided to do something about it. 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.

Company 8

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 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. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports.

Case Study 10

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 10

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

However long it takes," he adds. Jake : Learning to wear multiple hats while maintaining focus on the long-term. It’s been a battle to personally keep my focus on where I’m ultimately moving the company while trying to handle budgets, customer-service relationships, inventory management, and marketing.

Entrepreneur 70

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock — the world’s largest asset owner — followed up his 2015 letter to S&P 500 CEOs with another treatise against short-term focus.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8