Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Here’s an example. For example, a supplier in the packaging industry — we’ll call it EuropePack — wanted to find new applications for its existing materials over a one-to-two-year time horizon in order to drive sales of their latest product line and extend current business.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. We watch as they work around institutional constraints and build a network of colleagues who are eager to help.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

That criticism perhaps held in early iterations of Kodak’s digital cameras (the $20,000 DCS-100, for example), but Kodak ultimately embraced simplicity, carving out a strong market position with technologies that made it easy to move pictures from cameras to computers. What new opportunities does the disruption open up?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The student teams, with budgets and other constraints, have to assemble and field the best-performing teams they can and justify their investments and trade. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf and the SHE team, for example, first identified in banana-plants a local agro-waste fiber, and after experimenting, concluded that it had the potential to be an absorbent, cheap, safe material. They then approached MIT to partner on enhancing the process to make it more absorbent.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13