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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

We know that we are somehow complicit in the moral chain that links our cheap clothes with collapsing factories, but we feel powerless to respond. So here are three radical suggestions for transforming the field of supply chain ethics. The truth is that the world is complicated, and supply chains are tangled and dynamic.

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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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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). Social media makes supply chains transparent, and consumers will hold the retailers responsible more than ranchers or slaughterhouses.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

System" is the key word, and it was top of mind during a recent HBR event in Palo Alto, sponsored by Hitachi, where I was moderating a panel on sustainable supply chains. Pepsi has rolled it out at hundreds of sites, and now is sharing it with supply-chain partners.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

Online sales of everyday items — soap, orange juice, toothpaste — more than doubled between 2006 and 2010, and are expected to double again by 2014. That will require sophisticated digital capabilities throughout the business, across all functions, including marketing, sales, R&D and supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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? What can we do to independently monitor our supply chain? What do our local customers value? trillion market.

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Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

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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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. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace. Consider how many people have to keep the secrets: factory workers, supply chain workers, and retail employees. Founded in 2010, Xiaomi is one of the biggest Chinese smartphone companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Scientists are still trying to determine the long-term effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. However, little systematic research has explored the underlying causes of such accidents. In a recent study, we examine one crucial, yet overlooked, factor: economic globalization.

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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.

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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. We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". But inventory is not a minor issue. That's a lot of capital tied up in warehouses.

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Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increases in retail translate into the creation of new jobs all along the huge supply chain that brings products to store shelves. NRF is working to fix or repeal the provisions in the 2010 health care reform law that are hostile to the future of the retail industry.

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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. First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The lack of traceability in our materials supply chain is almost archaic. What would make it impossible, they said, was if the companies further up the supply chain—the cattle ranchers and the slaughterhouses—were unwilling to go along with it. Crafting a Response. High Stakes Decision Making An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

billion manufacturer of labels and office supplies, launched an internal online community in 2010 to improve collaboration and accelerate learning among its process improvement practitioners. As I mentioned in a previous post, " New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement ," Avery Dennison , a $6.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. There is nothing new in this.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

After all, no matter how green a company's operations and supply chains are, political efforts aimed at weakening environmental laws and regulations can have far greater environmental impact. Unfortunately, we know little about corporate political activities since much of it occurs behind closed doors. (A This finding is unfortunate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

In 2010 we joined forces to improve access to critical medicines. Working with the Tanzania’s Medical Stores Department and others, we were able to share our supply chain expertise, reduce medicine bottlenecks, and improve distribution as a whole.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

This emphasis on leading and not merely doing has had a profound impact on management education.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

They rendered the global power of the company useless because they could no longer leverage Nestle's massive supply chain or brands. The Right Fight , by Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, (HarperCollins, 2010) is available in book, e-book and audio formats. In essence, Nestle Japan acted like a local provider in a local market.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2011

pipeline explosion in September 2010. Organizations have lots of built in excuses — functional silos, product silos, geographic silos, communication, chain of command, budget allocations and codes, turf, "before my time." This plays out daily in product failures, supply chain disruptions, frauds, missed sales forecasts and more.

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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. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991.

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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%. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term. China will find it hard to sustain rapid rates of economic growth in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The model involved an innovative combination of direct marketing through billboards and leaflets; diagnostic camps where technicians would screen scores of patients in an afternoon; changes to the supply chain to lower the cost of the pacemaker for selected hospitals; and the world’s first loan program for an implantable medical device.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. The Olympics can bring a halt to "business as usual" for the host government as well, as it diverts resources to support and police the event.

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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.

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Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In 2010, during an exercise to review and improve its global anti-corruption compliance program, Ralph Lauren Corporation discovered evidence that its Argentine subsidiary had been paying bribes to officials in the Argentinian government. This carries benefits and risks — bribery by a business partner being one of them.

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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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