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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  My friend told me about an executive she knows named Bill who's been with the company for more than 30 years and who, through his leadership and tough love mentoring, has developed two generations of world class supply chain managers.  That's a legacy that's going to outlast Bill.

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Long-term Leadership Travel Executive Coaching 160

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Hold supply managers accountable.

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Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm). Measuring Sustainability’s Impact Across the Value Chain. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

pipeline explosion in September 2010. PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Federal Emergency Management Agency's post-Katrina updated material on incident management systems , which includes free online training. Tragically, sometimes they do.

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Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. When eyeglass maker Warby Parker launched in 2010, its founders had $2,500 seed funding and impressive business school pedigrees. billion valuation within five years.

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Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What are the dynamic change management techniques you want to use? How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies? Disrupting the Status Quo. Cultural Perception.

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Operations Risk management Strategy'

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

According to a PRWeek/Barkely PR Cause Survey in 2010, two-thirds of brands now engage in cause marketing, up from 58% in 2009. Additionally, given the complexity of global supply chains, we'll witness continued discussion around the prevention of human trafficking and slavery intersection. Marketing experts agree.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

And, of course, users (we) will have no input into what we actually get; Steve Jobs’ dictum that “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them” is still an act of faith for Apple’s management. All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. So managing inventory well is both a financial win and a sustainability victory. For example, using both demand sensing software and good management practices, P&G has cut 17 days and $2.1

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

(“Leadership That Gets Results” provides a useful roadmap here, highlighting the styles that have the greatest positive impact or are used less frequently by managers.). He revamped his role, delegating almost all of the tasks on his to-do list to his senior managers and had them do the same to their direct reports.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. ” Improving risk management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. Today, greater access to information makes the management of end-to-end processes easier, especially those that cut across organizational boundaries. But improvement has improved. I see three forces behind this trend: 1. Greater information availability.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. But awareness of the challenges is the first step toward managing them. The UN global goals offer a new chance to bring global development issues to the surface.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The lack of traceability in our materials supply chain is almost archaic. Our engineers concluded that the task was arduous but not impossible; although there wasn’t a system in place to capture and manage that data, there could be, given enough time and resources. Crafting a Response. Does Bigger Data Lead to Better Decisions?

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Supply Chain CEO Globalization Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. A 2010 study showed that 80% of farm working women report experiencing sexual harassment. So how can firms like yours get ahead of the curve and encourage reform across their own supply chain before they face activist pressure?

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Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In partnership with research firms Trucost and Sustainalytics, companies are ranked based on their management, performance, and transparency in the environmental domain. Newsweek just released its fourth annual Green Rankings , grading the "greenness" of the 500 largest publicly-traded companies in the world. This finding is unfortunate.

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CPA Supply Chain Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Companies usually manage bribery and corruption risk through a mix of internal processes, certification requirements, and basic good practices throughout their operations — including with suppliers and vendors. It covers bribery in all of its forms — direct and indirect, inbound and outbound.

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Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

It developed an outstanding supply chain for fish and became a dining out routine for millions of Americans, especially on its famous “endless shrimp” days. But in recent years, as cold chains became more prevalent, almost all restaurants now serve fish, and Red Lobster’s comparative advantage has dwindled.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

So retailers manage their supply chains and overhead costs with a tight fist. The large UK retailer, owned by Wal-mart, lowered its 2010 expenses by over £70 million ($110 million) through energy and waste reduction throughout its retail footprint of 500 stores. Consider Asda.

Retail 15

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Part of this story relates to the provenance, or origins, of its products: Chains that provide more upmarket “fast casual” dining such as Panera, Chipotle, and Shake Shack have brands that speak of freshness, health, and trustworthy sourcing. McDonald’s woes offers three lessons for others about supply-chain transparency.

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Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Those losses stemmed not from poor product, marketing, or supply chain decisions but from regulatory violations, loss of business and fines resulting from bribery and fraud, and concomitant reputational damage. Our survey found that the vast majority (83%) of these companies have suffered significant losses since 2010.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. First, technology imitation occurs far more quickly today than in the past, due in part to the global base of technology competitors and the speed of reverse engineering.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. Getting to 1.5 Keep in mind that this would need to happen as the world most likely adds a couple billion people , with a billion or more entering the middle class. Pathway two also likely takes us beyond the 2.0°C

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground. As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B.

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CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

According to recent McKinsey research (see " The $30 Trillion Decathlon "), consumption by developing economies could rise from $12 trillion annually in 2010 to $30 trillion in 2025, by which time these markets could account for nearly 70% of global demand for manufactured goods. The Dynamics of Global Manufacturing Are Shifting.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. That was when I really started to understand the importance of sustainability at the community level.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Droughts and floods also enter the risk picture for any company dependent on an agricultural supply chain. On the contrary, tackling climate change is an investment that pays off economically as well as socially. Every board of every company should be asking itself: "Are we prepared for climate change?

Insurance 9

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8