Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions. For example, the retailer was able to migrate to automatic HVAC systems for better insulation and adjust store timings to optimize energy usage.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

But the company’s achievement also raises some interesting questions about how goals are set, how they’re viewed in the court of public opinion, and what Coca-Cola should focus on going forward. And so it set goals accordingly. This goal, and its achievement, arguably makes Coca-Cola “water neutral.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Partner with farmers in the supply chain. billion to 9.8 In the U.S.,

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

UjuziKilimo , a Kenyan startup, uses big data and analytic capabilities to transform farmers into a knowledge-based community, with the goal of improving productivity through precision insights. And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. What are job goals and key success metrics? It’s best to identify these along with your manager, but if that’s not happening then write down what you understand the goals and key performance indicators to be.

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Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. Goals matter.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. The market for renewables is growing fast. No wonder HSBC says the market for clean tech and climate change solutions will top $2.2 Big goals were back.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal. The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Embrace renewable energy. °C (2.7°F). °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F)

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things. EPA's latest list of the top 50 renewable energy buyers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It isn’t just about limiting downside risk; the company can also create profitable new products and services to address the urgent global needs such as those associated with scarce water supplies, hunger, and greenhouse gas emissions. Coca-Cola devotes many resources to creating cleaner water supplies in developing countries.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For every “shared value” example of an energy-saving initiative that reduces operational costs, or of a social investment that enhances customer loyalty, one can find a less comfortable result. It can cost more to ensure better labor standards in a supply chain, or to meet environmental standards.

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. For over 200 years, from Thomas Malthus to the Limits to Growth gang, many people have made the case that it won't be long before we'll run out of food, energy, materials, and on and on. Right now, the U.S. Nuclear on the outs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Sustainability can no longer be a compliance measure or a “nice-to-do”; it’s now a business planning imperative with measures, goals, and explicit value connected to our programs. If the ultimate goal is to create both economic value and social value, how do you strike that balance? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

This may seem like a regional story, but it has global ramifications for manufacturing, consumer goods, the energy industry, and much more. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy. And to be fair, while U.S.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. For example, the U.S. They’re not exactly legally binding.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Data had to be labeled, and goals set. The coordination of business transactions within and outside an organization will speed up, and in the process, eliminate organizational friction and facilitate market collaboration. 2) How much of my organization’s managerial expertise is entirely dedicated to market coordination?

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Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The HTA’s self-described goal is “to improve the way corporations provide health care benefits in an effort to create better health care outcomes for their employees” by aggregating its members’ purchasing power and using it to gain additional leverage with care providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Porter and Kramer's Shared Value argument subscribes to the same general principle: if businesses looked beyond quarterly profits, they'd see that dumping PCBs into the local streams (GE, I'm talking to you ) will kill their workforce and a small portion of their market, as well as make them susceptible to a PR hit.

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

As the impacts of climate change become even more evident, we will see calls for increased regulation to help us move away from carbon-emitting energy. BICEP''s specific policy goals run along the same lines, and the Prince of Wales'' group created a more targeted Carbon Price Communique to push for the most important policy of all.

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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

Thus, for example, a complex system like commuter train service has targets for the on time, safe delivery of passengers that present an optimization problem in real time based on a variety of fluctuating variables, ranging from the weather, to load size, to even the availability and cost of energy. Decision making Information & technology'

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Supply Chain Software Information Technology Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Fifteen years ago, The Cluetrain Manifesto taught us that markets are conversations and that was a great starting point. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. How does this work?

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. Imagine a scenario where a pharmaceutical company marketing a heart failure medication approaches its institutional customers — health systems, hospitals, urgent care centers, and other providers — with a risk-shared value proposition.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The first is instrumental support , the ideas, advice, and assistance offered by people trying to help you achieve your goals. Whether it’s online or in person, seek out a group of people (a supply chain professionals group, a chamber of commerce, women in capital markets, etc.) and join in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Customers and suppliers: The ultimate goal of our business is not to sell products but to serve customers. By competing on products, we respond to the market. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Doug observed this when he moved into a Vice President of Marketing position at Nabisco in the $3.5 This division was far outside his area of expertise—and his peers in supply chain, sales, and R&D knew it.

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Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams. Using a single price is economically inefficient because part of the demand curve that could be profitably served is priced out of the market.

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Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Work to get those right, too.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. Learn more about your market value. Start a blog.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

A single-product enterprise, for example, might add new products, focus on new customer segments, or even enter new geographic markets. On its face, more collaboration is a laudable goal. As companies grow, they naturally add new dimensions to their organizations. A “collaboration for collaboration’s sake” culture.

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Supply Chain Execution Operations Organization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. A shift toward protectionism.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10