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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking.

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When the Jobs Go Away, They Take Your DNA

Harvard Business Review

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. By competing on products, we respond to the market. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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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When Do Company Boycotts Work?

Harvard Business Review

And many activists have given up on governments and are focusing instead on companies as the main engine of social change. Reputational damage to Apple could be used as leverage to change working conditions in its supply chain. When this is the goal, activists frequently select a single firm as their target.

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