Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

These shifts will have important implications for the supply chain and profitability of U.S.-based The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. political upheaval. based companies. At the same time, exports and other foreign sales would be made tax free. Options and hedges.

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Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 8

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) Reserved your spot? You can learn more in FE News.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. During this time, the community members recount dreams, tell myths, and discuss hunting techniques, politics, and weather patterns.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh makes all too clear, the factory jobs in our global supply chain carry significant risks for the millions of people who fill them — the majority of whom are women under the age of 30. Access to professional development and advancement opportunities.

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Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

And they need process owners (who may variously be called VP of Customer Experience, SVP of Supply Chain, Chief Engineer, or Value Stream Leader, for instance) to lead these initiatives. For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing). In most major U.S.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

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. Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. Rather than aiming at all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , for example, companies will likely tailor their sustainability efforts to their commercial priorities.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

What if you’re just trying to change the way your people handle loans, manage a supply chain, or interact with customers? To protect us from that icky feeling that part of our world no longer makes sense, our brains have developed an instinctive defense mechanism. There is a simpler way to inspire change.

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Charisma Supply Chain Creativity Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As a consequence, quick wins may soon be undone, or they may beget new leadership problems. The result: You will have more control over the pace of your transition to new leadership responsibilities and the company’s transition to its new era. Use silence. A pause before responding has a double benefit.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. ” They combine experience and emotion into well-developed intuition.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Those firms may even be your most dangerous customers because they treat you more like low-cost vendors than partners in design and development.". "So His response led to a constructive conversation about successful supply chain collaborations with key customers. So how do we get them to see us as innovation partners?"

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Shannon Schuyler, Chief Purpose Officer of PwC, is already hard to work developing the one asset she feels will help ensure deep-level diversity and inclusion throughout the organization. Adaptability is one of the mainsprings of diversity.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. It protects you from being clueless about the political dynamics that so often kill good ideas. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

A consistent, quantitative perspective on uncertainty not only builds the best foundation for making good management decisions but also provides a platform for developing a shared understanding of trade-offs, bridging disagreement and establishing accountability. But the uncertainty of the future is no excuse for less rigor or clarity.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Outsourcing Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. 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. Whatever your politics, ignoring or dismissing this movement is a big mistake. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

workers, and the fact that manufacturing at home eliminates a host of problems inherent in long-distance supply chains, many companies are doing the math and choosing to build new plants in the United States rather than overseas. The United States offers the lowest-cost manufacturing platform in the developed world today.

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Supply Chain Incentives Politics Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Aid Bosses, once the unquestioned successors in Africa to the joint heirloom of Mother Teresa and Lord Clive of Chennai , are finding it harder and harder to get face time with the political grandees in our wheeling and dealing capitals. Take any newspaper printed in Africa any day. infrastructure.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

Companies adapt around infrastructural difficulties in all developing countries, routinely. The entire supply chain goes down. When as an outsider, you see the systemic failure, and then the political paralysis, then you're going to be reluctant to invest. It's a matter of leadership. It is politically too risky.

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Supply Chain Class Price Politics 15

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

AIMMS , supply chain analytics. Voluntary and open membership: Cooperatives are voluntary organizations, open to all persons able to use their services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination. Holacracy Examples. Convert.com , software.

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Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

But seismic political events can demand such changes. In fact, the two most frequent reasons for government sector reorgs (accounting for more than half of them) are responding to a change in the political environment and a leader’s desire to reshape the organization. We are seeing this second one playing out in the U.S.

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Objective Survey Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The response from political leaders so far has been mixed. Companies invested significant resources in pushing for high public policy ambition in agreeing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Respect the leadership role of government, but be prepared to use your voice and influence. Others have been less enthusiastic.

Globalization 9

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Few business leaders have developed this attention to the front line as effectively as M.S. Oberoi, the founder of the Oberoi Group, a chain of luxury hotels in India. And you also can’t put customers first until senior leadership meetings are filled with the voices of the customers and front line.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In an era of high unemployment, and especially in this political season of economic nationalism, both parties outdo themselves with promises to "rebuild America." employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. Let's get real — and back to basics. Business Purpose.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. If these events occur, they would severely disrupt multinationals’ market strategies, supply chains, and exchange-rate assumptions. conflict in the Middle East or Africa renewing the migrant crisis in Europe.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The loss of American trade leadership could hardly come at a worse time. Despite the negative political climate, many polls show voters support trade. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. The political currents are threatening to sink the TPP. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Trade is in trouble in U.S.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8