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 22, 2015

Once most of GE Capital is gone, ecomagination will clearly be a major driver of the success of the overall business. 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., GE’s experience is part of a larger story.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 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. Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based Rocket Internet’s core business model is replicating successful business ideas globally, matching the latest-and-greatest e-commerce ideas to the biggest untapped markets.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 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%. However, there are some risks. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Only you have the specific transaction, "John Smith bought peas, bread, and grape nehi at 9:27 AM on March 11, 2013," and the tens of thousands like it each day! Further, they can combine John Smith's transaction with others to better understand buying patterns, improve their supply chains, lay stores out more effectively, and so forth.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. In data-intensive fields like marketing and supply chain management, the results and decisions that robotic algorithms provide is likely to be more accurate than those made by human intuition. . $4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. For your sanity and future success, it’s critical to maintain outside interests and contacts of your own.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Boston Consulting Group’s list, which relies heavily on surveys asking senior executives to name the companies they perceive to be innovative, risks succumbing to the halo effect, where generally successful companies are assumed to be good at everything. Both trace their success to bringing new business models to their respective markets.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Supply Chain Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In your testimony to Congress on May 21, 2013, when you explained Apple’s tax practices, you said: “You can tell the story of Apple’s success in just one word: innovation.” If innovation is the story of Apple’s success, we need the widest possible diffusion of that innovation for our society to benefit. Social innovation.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. This year, Walmart finally added a key element to its impressive green supply chain efforts. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

The successful ones have, at least. 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. But even worse sociopolitical outcomes are in the cards. The Necessity of Nonmarket Strategies.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10