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

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

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

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 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The best thing to share will depend heavily on the product - the labels on energy hogs like light bulbs, air conditioners, and cars should tell us the total energy use and cost to operate over a year or the product's lifetime. It's an interesting time to reach that conclusion because the tools for calculating footprint are evolving fast.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 14

HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But this massive gap has fueled the advent of some concerning new approaches including automated diversity sourcing tools that try to guess candidates’ ethnicity and gender by scanning their name. Leading apparel company Theory uses Mathison’s Equal Hiring Index system as its primary DEI assessment and reporting system.

Diversity 98

Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

How WhatsApp became a tool for businesses. In Brazil and India , small apparel shops use messaging to alert recurring customers when a new collection has arrived and to share pictures and videos of their products. Either set up a 24/7 operation for messaging or clearly state your operating hours. Two mistakes to avoid.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Apparel Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Almost half of the respondents say that they are requesting tools to manage work. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

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. Ultimately, discovery-driven planning is a set of disciplines and tools that includes the following five steps. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

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.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. It’s no coincidence that the Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix was formerly head of data science for Netflix, and its Chief Operating Officer, Julie Bornstein, was formerly CMO at Sephora. New tools and strategies.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

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. But companies can also use "open" innovation tools to generate new ideas and invite the world to solve problems together.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

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.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

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. A teenager pressures Cola-Cola and Pepsi – and wins.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Adapted from.

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

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

JUNE 8, 2018

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This holiday-themed product campaign targeted two specific audiences: 1) customers who had previously viewed the holiday-themed apparel and 2) customers with a high affinity toward the product.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 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