Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T., general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. So I began a practice I've kept up to this day.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. They also simplified checkouts and shelf restocking processes and equipment.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Like a guild, each of these departments looks to become world-class at what it does.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For the average manager, it is a reminder of the argument we made in Beyond HR , that human capital deserves to be treated with the same rigor as financial capital and other tangible resources, and to bring that rigor by applying frameworks developed in more quantitative disciplines like finance, supply chain and marketing.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is the appropriate home when Human Resources wants to do a talent review or when finance wants to share a new budget process. Is your supply chain performance worrisome? After the roundtable, review ongoing projects, stopping only on issues where the team needs to weigh in. Have your margins been declining?

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14