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 14

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Until recently, determining who works when involved store managers manually slotting each employee into shifts on paper. At a factory in Southern China, for example, executives thought that watching workers would help managers increase productivity and lower costs.

Software 8

Software Management Retail How To 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. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 14

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

After all, its past hackathons have given rise to wildly popular features, such as its instant messaging feature Facebook Chat and Instagram’s time-lapse tool Hyperlapse. Armed with this information, the company developed prototypes for new tools that aim to help millennials avoid financial pitfalls and manage their money better.

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. not visiting competitor venues).

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost.

Price 12

Price P&L White Paper Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

But in Brazil WhatsApp has become something much bigger than a chat app: a one-stop solution for everyone, from small businesses to government agencies, to manage everything, from transactions to relationships. How WhatsApp became a tool for businesses. They should be able to receive, manage, and respond to users.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. ” So, this challenge at work, the crisis of trying to manage modern work, has gone from a nuisance to a business imperative. Almost half of the respondents say that they are requesting tools to manage work.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. ” Discovery-driven planning has since become a staple in business schools’ entrepreneurship curricula and a go-to technique for those who manage innovation.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

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 8

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 8

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. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. Trump Shocked the World. days of innovation).

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 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 wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. CEOs expect comp to fix anything, but usually you need other tools. Of course I have. “OK.

Case Study 10

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8