Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win. That is playing development to win.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This growth, along with rising incomes in developing countries (which cause dietary changes such as eating more protein and meat) are driving up global food demand. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the Retail 4.0 There is the technology and there is business process development, both go hand-in-hand to form a complete marketplace ecosystem.

Retail 116

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 116

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Organizations with this configuration have the least formalized commitment to sustainability. Organizations with this configuration have a broad overall commitment to sustainability, but the specific sustainability initiatives are not rigidly formalized. finance, mineral processing, geology). Just right.

Positioning 11

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. By setting clear standards and releasing data, these collaborations help show the market which firms are committed to ESG and which ones are shirking.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the marketplace model today. There is the technology and there is business process development, both go hand-in-hand to form a complete marketplace ecosystem.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. They don’t need to be part of every discussion, but CEOs do need to make pricing and new product development their priority.

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. million in financing for a new 50,000-square-foot bakery, which opened in 2008. The inability to find, develop, and keep key people during periods of rapid growth triggers many an operational breakdown.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. The HR Digest: How can companies commit to truer diversity and make progress without disenfranchising white men?

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. The ride-hailing company Uber has stressed the importance of its hybrid cloud model to ensure not just constant uptime, but an indivisible relationship between product development and deployment.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Too often, senior executive teams favor horizontal, internally focused actions like “building a world-class finance function.” Committing to 25 micro battles over the next six months is very different from debating the mathematical allocation of targets across the entire business.

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. presidential election.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

If an individual developer sets out to make an app that is better for kids, it may or may not gain any traction; if Apple makes this issue a priority, an entire ecosystem will shift. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. The same is true of Facebook.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11