Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations. New operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Harry Potter star Emma Watson is a vocal advocate on gender equality while also appearing regularly in fashion magazines. Slavery is still a problem.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. It’s imperative that brands operating in Bangladesh join collaborations like these. But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

” Little did they know that the business they founded, Vineyard Vines, would become a darling of the fashion industry and a household brand name around the country. 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

APRIL 1, 2016

An apparel manufacturer kicked off its hackathon with the telephone game, the one where a spoken phrase inevitably gets distorted as a series of players whisper it to each other. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

In Brazil and India , small apparel shops use messaging to alert recurring customers when a new collection has arrived and to share pictures and videos of their products. As businesses start creating messaging operations, they’d be wise to understand what customers don’t want to see from companies on these platforms.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In another example, GSMA, the trade body representing mobile operators, has developed a framework to collaborate in maximizing their contribution towards the SDGs, in particular improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, providing quality education, and acting on climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. If you start with your own capability-based growth engine, you’ll tend to move outward from your core in a deliberate fashion. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

It’s easy to scan headlines and see undisciplined for-profit companies (take GM, American Apparel). Bad Reason #5: Nonprofits are “old-fashioned” and only for-profits earn respect in their sectors. In fact, according to the National Philanthropic Trust, when the S&P 500 fell by 45% after the 2007 recession, U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Disruptors typically start in somewhat innocent fashion away from your mainstream customers. As leaders see their risks to current operations increase, and expected returns from planned investments decrease, it’s likely they’ll face larger growth gaps than they had expected. But this is not cause for alarm.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain. Who really knows what a Trump presidency will bring to the U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her. She’d joined the company six weeks before, following a long stint as CMO of Atawear, a high-end sports apparel company. “MMC isn’t a fashion trend.

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand Proposal Chief Operating Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. Later in the year, tragedy struck Dhaka, Bangladesh when a fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory killed or injured hundreds of people. But the subtle change in buyer incentives is a big deal.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. A teenager pressures Cola-Cola and Pepsi – and wins.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 9