Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. Japan's economic policy makers are being put to the test once again. The direct impact on real economic activity worldwide is already being felt. for the second quarter.

GDP 15

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. It also demands senior management and board involvement. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. Why would managers choose to respond to investors’ requests on immaterial issues if doing so decreases financial value?

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In one illustration of these difficulties, consider that India currently ranks 100 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings, 22 places behind China, 39 places behind Indonesia, and just nine places above Papua New Guinea. Several central and eastern states fall into this category.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., For example, the U.S. Regulations will be shifting.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s. Many large banks, other financial institutions and some large manufacturing companies also had their own economic staffs. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Consider that other power brokers, such as Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, echoed themes similar to those the Pope raised. For years, asset owners with longer-term horizons, like pension or sovereign wealth funds, have pressed companies to better manage environmental and social issues. Wall Street wakes up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Yet for each Radio Shack and Barnes and Noble fighting for its life, there are still those beloved corner stores and discount chains that manage to thrive. Design with an eye to the outcome the customer is seeking, whether that’s more reliable transportation, more exciting entertainment, or higher productivity.

Retail 9

Retail Reis Price Banking 9

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 19, 2016

I have seen too many managers fear mistakes. You can order people to accomplish certain tasks and tell them to comply with certain policies. Dr. Karin Stumpf consults for multinational companies implementing strategy changes, such as DaimlerChrysler, Universal Pictures, Deutsche Bank and Bombardier Transportation.

Motivation 100

Motivation Open-book Transportation Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our bank accounts? A well-respected HR manager in the public sector, leading his own recruitment team and earning a decent salary. Can you cut your commuting costs by using public transportation? For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change.

Career 13

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

The second is that money spent on transportation is too often squandered on megaprojects that have great ribbon-cutting moments but don’t “fix” traffic because they are based on myth and obsolete thinking. But are there ways to make it better that actually work — and without breaking the bank? Pay your own way.

Parcell 8

Parcell Transportation Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. IT management Information & technology Risk management'

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At the regulatory and policy levels, authorities have doggedly pursued U.S. If things look bad for goods moving across borders electronically, they look even worse for transporting content. There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8