Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. ” he asked.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Are they looking for ideas to streamline operations and serve customers better, or developing new business models around existing products? To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Instead, by using robotics, lean processes, and agile systems, 99Degrees Custom is allowing new jobs to be created using “sew free and wearable technologies, on-demand manufacturing, and fastest-turn development and production cycles.”

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Judith Goldhaft employed the assistance of fabric designer and fellow hippie gal, Jodi Palladini, to create an apparel design that would permit San Francisco’s homeless women to sell their very own fabric creations. Along with products, Haight-Ashbury hippies conceived of innovative ideas that transformed product development and advertising.

Apparel 120

Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters. I've seen rubber tires used in dresses and outdoor furniture.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Instead, they are clear-minded about what they do best, developing a solid value proposition and building distinctive capabilities that will last for the long term. With 22,000 stores and counting, the company continues to develop its concept and to dominate the “coffee and community” space it created.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? Is P&G no longer an academy company?

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. Alignment can take a while. The vision thing. “How big could this be?

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). You may appoint a temporary CDO to get your house in order, or you may develop other ways to get the job done. Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. Lance knew that as part of this process he’d need to examine his own leadership.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Competition Leadership Retail' But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

We have our apparel releases planned for the next year, but always take into account ideas people have or suggestions for colors. Some Tuesdays it may be a new apparel release (such as a limited-edition shirt), some could be a 72-hour sale, and others may be a special announcement. But each Tuesday, something happens at 7 p.m.

Entrepreneur 74

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2014

So I think it’s important to bet on yourself when it comes to the “big” decisions in your life, because then you’re able to develop a self-confidence and self-sufficiency that can be very valuable down the road. Then Dov Charney at American Apparel, who taught me everything I know about business today.

Ryan 56

Ryan Apparel Crisis Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images. It just does not work.”

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. We might expect the regions with the lowest overall averages to be those dominated by developing or emerging economies.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

It was the stuff of Silicon Valley lore : Employees from across the company took a break from their regular projects to develop mind-blowing ideas about artificial intelligence over an intense 24-hour period. At their best, hackathons create a structure and process around idea development. Facebook recently hosted its 50th hackathon.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Deep concerns about labor conditions, wages, and equity take root: From tragedies in Bangladeshi apparel factories to minimum wages in the U.S. Travesties like the death of more than 1100 workers at the Rana Plaza apparel factory in Bangladesh are increasingly unacceptable to the buying public. It’s hard to argue the point.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

In Gigerenzer’s view, using heuristics, rules of thumb, and other shortcuts often leads to better decisions than the models of “rational” decision-making developed by mathematicians and statisticians. There’s fear of being made responsible if something goes wrong, so they have developed a few strategies to deal with this fear.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

One of the traditional arguments against globalization is that multinationals offshore to emerging markets to avoid environmental, health and safety regulations in the developed world. Working Conditions. Quality.

Offshoring 13

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Big themes are great, but periodically a specific example of leadership seems worthy of extra attention. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8