Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Amazon also leveraged its growing strength in the publishing supply chain as well as a reputation for superior customer service to create and dominate the e-book business, dispatching prior and future competitors. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Then came the cloud, which only heightened frustration with IT's lack of velocity in delivery, and managers flocked to outside vendors to automate various business processes, from customer relationship management to supply chain reporting to social media analytics. IT as Process Creator.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The great Argentinian chef Francois Mallmann, featured on Netflix’s documentary series Chef’ s Table , left the comfort of his restaurants to cook in the wild in Patagonia, with no kitchen or sous chefs, traveling with a group of young novices who have little or no experience.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

While you need someone who can build a new supply chain from scratch, you’ve hired someone who expects a staff of 45 to administer an existing supply chain. Gone is the old insurgent pitch: “This is going to be a wild ride, it may be chaotic, but you will be able to make your mark.”

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy System Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Companies challenged, and were challenged by, their supply chains. For many sectors, supply chains are becoming both a major source of risk and also an opportunity for positive change. ” This shift in consumer demand is rippling up through supply chains as food giants race to change the food system.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

That''s why they''re painted bright blue, and the company even holds contests for employees who can spot and bring home pallets that were somehow left in the wild. Consumer goods Supply chain Transportation' So CHEP did something kind of genius: It rented out the containers and then picked them up once a shipment was delivered.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Entrepreneurship can displace loyal legacy suppliers or products, along the way putting good people out of work, disorganizing and reorganizing supply chains and on the way down, depleting the wealth of the shareholders of deposed market leaders. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Games leaders have worked hard to award contracts to smaller suppliers across the country and tracked this as far down the supply chain as possible. The role of the Olympic Games leaders is to build, sell, and safely deliver the event.

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Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

To succeed in the collaborative economy, companies will need to integrate crowd-produced goods into their supply chain, as West Elm has done with Etsy. Partly in response to pleas from established players like taxi and hotel companies, municipal governments have tried to corral the Wild West of sharing.

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Company Supply Chain Transportation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Coordination & Control: With global supply chains, distributed production networks, and virtual teams, the challenges of coordination are more pressing than ever. If you've got some hard evidence, or just a wild idea, share it with the world. In most organizations, managers are the rivets that hold everything together.

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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

They don’t have a full picture of what is on their networks, the cloud services they’re using, the applications running on those services, and the security postures of their supply chains and partners. vulnerability intelligence (what is being exploited in the wild?),

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Tactics Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. At a minimum, this Apple TV could change education, hospitality, work, and travel. It may even change the city.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. Water rising — both literally and as a serious issue for business: Honda's supply chain gets slammed, Levi's gets creative. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers. A list of floods that devastated lives, homes, and countries this year would be tragically long.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When David White became Global VP of Supply Chain at Campbell Soup Company in 2004, the company had a shocking lost-time injury rate of 1.24%. David’s position at Campbell, Global VP of Supply Chain, was in its infancy. Martin Diebel/Getty Images. These were bad injuries, not just burns or cuts.

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Company Supply Chain Letter Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The authors also say Lululemon should probably pay more attention to its supply chain. After all, they point out, strong supply chains "are the hallmark of businesses that outlast their founders.". The Option You Can''t Use. Workplace Flexibility is Top Consideration for Nearly Three-Fourths of U.S. "Why

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Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Companies far outside the tech world are using these intense brainstorming and development sessions to stir up new ideas on everything from culture change to supply chain management. Hackathons are no longer just for coders.

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Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Radio DJs may be an extreme example of personal branding — it's a lot easier to attract attention when you're musing about sex or interviewing Oprah, compared to regular executives who do things like market database systems or oversee international supply chains.

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Brand Supply Chain Godin Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

New products, services, and companies are created virtually, build their supply chains in the cloud, and connect with early customers through social media. If the project goal is reached, Kickstarter collects the pledges from backers, taking a 5% cut before turning over the proceeds to the organizers.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Financial Times journalist Wolf once extolled the successes of globalized markets and painted dissenters who worried about the risk to national fortunes as wild-eyed radicals.

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Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 15