Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

By the end of 2011, the company had gained some ground, but it was clear a change in management style and better decisions at the top would not be enough to realize the improvements that were needed to turn the company around. Now in the middle of 2013, they are on track to beat this year’s goal to surpass 2012’s profits by 25%.

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Balanced Scorecard Workshop Supply Chain Objective 95

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency. Max also oversaw the TW:IN trend spotter network until 2013, hosting meetups everywhere from Johannesburg to Manila. Right now, at this very minute, there are hundreds if not thousands of brands out there heightening your customers’ expectations.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

But McDonald’s is already going through great lengths to ensure good working conditions in the other direction in its value chain. The Fair Labor Association was created in the 1990s to bring together companies, civil society organizations, and colleges and universities to protect factory workers’ rights in complex global supply chains.

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Supply Chain Compliance Franchising How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. carmakers than for their Asian counterparts, and may accumulate with each tier of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

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

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

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'

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Nike subsequently became an innovator in supply chain accountability and promulgated a rigorous supplier code of conducts, accompanied by third-party factory inspections. Internal advocates for safety and labor rights in the supply chain have become powerful contenders within Nike.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, recently said , “Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors relevant to a company’s business can provide essential insights into management effectiveness and thus a company’s long-term prospects.” It was an ambitious but concrete plan.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

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

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. ” She continues: “Since 2013, two incidents of sexual harassment have been identified. These are companies you might have enormous influence over, even if they don’t technically operate under your management.

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Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Strategic talent constraints are typically described in vast interconnected global supply chains and high-tech knowledge jobs like software engineers and research scientists.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S., And behind that chain lies companies like GE building turbines and engines. Yes, data helps us dematerialize and find efficiencies in all aspects of our economy.

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Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. If you want to go after the health care system, you need to understand what information is needed at diagnosis, how does it then go through the supply chain, etc. We're also hiring more doctors. No we're not.

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Survey CEO Insurance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. To make a significant, sustainable positive impact on society, they are re-examining their business models, re-designing their supply chains, re-inventing products, and re-thinking what they sell and how they sell it.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector. For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 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.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

However, with China’s growth slowing over the past two years, costs shooting up, the government making life difficult for multinational companies, and confusion following the reforms emanating from the Third Plenum in November 2013, some companies are heading in the opposite direction.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 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. It’s not just the rules of the road that will be affected by driverless cars. Lawmakers face a critical choice.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Unfortunately, health care as an industry continues hiring far faster than demand is growing, adding 119,000 new workers in the first half of 2013, for example, with little increase in patient volume. Fortunately, we anticipate demand for health care to grow in 2014, so to the extent that jobs are not added, productivity gains are possible.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. Working in the family business can be fraught. It always ends badly.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. Managing yourself Tech industry Technology'

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Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. Five Questions For 2013.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? Simply put, business is the 800-pound gorilla where this issue is concerned: 80% of global trade is orchestrated by supply chains of multinational firms.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8