Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Smoother supply chains.

Process 9

Process Company Supply Chain Software 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. 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.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

You might simply Pinterest the elements you liked, including information about your space or noise limitations ("One-bedroom apartment on busy street in New York," or "suburban space that needs stuff protected from little kids"), and then have a retailer give you a personalized, optimal configuration. Big Isn't Enough.

Porter 15

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. Companies in the leading sectors make more extensive use of digital payments, digital marketing, and design-led product development.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process. However, our experience has been that [when a product fails] it’s not a technology problem or a pure R&D problem — it is really around marketing, customer segments, and of course pricing.

Price 8

Price Productivity Products Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It’s easy to see what I’m talking about by observing changes in Chinese retail, the industry currently most affected by e-commerce. Traditional retailers must guess how much demand the market will create for their goods. Someday soon, we may even be able to do away with idle stock altogether.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain PR Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. They allow you to prove that you’re highly competent at what you do.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls. A great example of this comes from a major electronics retailer which identified Diva consumers via the 'wedding ring' technique.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. This is quite a shift. Thus, they have low PPE but high multiples.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. When all their well-intentioned, but separate, solutions showed up at retail, customer satisfaction never improved.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. Then Costco came knocking on Dave’s doors to supply its warehouse clubs, but Dave’s had to turn the giant retailer down. million in financing for a new 50,000-square-foot bakery, which opened in 2008.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Of the large markets, the U.S., How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? What will our retail footprint be? Retail and consumer business. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

A new paper by economists Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout argues that the problem isn’t confined to finance, or even large international corporations. In highly competitive markets, firms are forced to lower prices until they just cover their costs. economy, suggesting firms today have much more market power.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Price Trends 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Finance and business executives often joke that the word blockchain placed at the end of the company name is enough to increase the share price of any entity at least twofold. Supply Chain Management. Many people are using the world blockchain these days. So much so that the phrase has become a buzzword.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. Apple demonstrably understands design, UX, and global supply chain alignment in ways few organizations ever have. Traditional retailers smirked and cried “niche!”

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” These programs are essentially an online form of direct marketing. Today smart marketers do know which half isn’t working.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” These programs are essentially an online form of direct marketing. Today smart marketers do know which half isn’t working.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. That's Quite A Coup, Onward Group!

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon, the upscale retailer of yoga clothing, is doing great. For years, the creative side of the company was the top priority, leaving things like finance, IT, and HR to suffer (yes, they tried to run their operations on spreadsheets). The authors also say Lululemon should probably pay more attention to its supply chain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. • Machine learning and cognitive computing. To do this, companies can take two approaches depending on the nature of the business problem.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Utility bills in major markets have been consistently increasing faster than inflation and are forecasted to continue to do so. Stakeholders ranging from your supply chains to customers that walk into retail storefronts increasingly prefer to do business with companies that pursue cost-effective sustainability. .”

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Often the markets they supply shrink in size. If that displaced 20% of the 250 million cars Americans own, consumers would save $150 billion, $3,000 for every car displaced, and 1 million jobs would disappear in the automotive related industries — manufacturing, insurance, finance, etc. There are 3.5

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. especially in fast-growing foreign markets. for certain domestic markets due to rising costs abroad and labor productivity at home.) Because a presence can strengthen that market's economy and thus increase U.S.

Offshoring 12

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 9