Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. ” Download this interview. .”

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Competitors in the auto, computer, and apparel industries frequently rely on the same suppliers and distributors, and to keep them healthy need to make sure that the overall industry does well. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done.

Apparel 14

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

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. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. They said, ''This kid is a fad.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In our experience, few companies track those projects comprehensively, so even just identifying them can be an eye-opening experience. Only one out of about 30 different projects was clearly an effort to bring a new offering to a new market. The problem is even worse for new growth efforts, which involve so many new variables.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e.,

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. 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

JUNE 13, 2012

The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. This is the focus of my next project.).

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

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. We’re seeing some interesting innovation in policy and business practice.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8