Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness. And managers aren’t helping. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour.

Career 15

Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. To be sure, my students devote a substantial amount of time and energy to elaborate social activities, and I often find myself amused at the lengths to which they go to entertain themselves.

Supply Chain 20

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you were offered the opportunity to finance a high risk , low return investment, how eager would you be to write a check? These business people would spend their energy building the business in a new market not experimenting with an untested model. How Banks Should Finance the Social Sector. What Capitalism Can't Fix.

Franchising 8

Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. This is quite a shift. Thus, they have low PPE but high multiples.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Russia’s recent economic downturn, precipitated by the collapse in energy prices, has also contributed to more conservative state policies at the expense of economic reforms – which undermines the business climate and long-term growth prospects.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? For example: Infrastructure. These plans have investment horizons of 15 to 30 years or longer.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. With our cotton farmers in Xinjiang, we changed many of the unfair trade practices and now aim for more than just fair trade by promoting higher cotton yields and quality through assistance in cotton research, farming techniques, and access to micro-finance.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The same applies to trade finance and financial assets, where companies such as Digital Asset Holdings (run by JPMorgan veteran Blythe Masters ), Blockstream, and Chain are trying to revolutionize how assets are issued and traded.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

When we talk about natural resource constraints on business — such as shortages in water or increases in the cost of energy or agricultural products — we tend to forget how deeply intertwined these commodities are. Companies will need to look along and beyond their own value chains to become agents of change.

Energy 13

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. Coupons have been redeemed as a "class" not just "mass" vehicle for luxury and high-status items as well as for everyday brands and staples.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. For all but a few process-focused companies or those with energy-intensive facilities such as data centers, the utility bill is generally filed under the list of uncontrollable, take-it-or-leave-it costs of doing business.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I am expected to integrate my tools into complex global supply chains of international drug producers to solve the local problem of counterfeiting. I run a multinational enterprise with multiple partners and super-demanding clients. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 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. Analyze the total costs of supply for each alternative location. A shift toward protectionism.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose?

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

We witnessed a monumental event in a shareholder resolution calling on ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest publicly listed energy company, to disclose the impact on its business under a 2-degree scenario. But another major action last week points in the opposite direction and leaves us more optimistic.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. If jobs decline in the auto industry, jobs vanish in the automobile supply chain. How it will impact business, industry, and society. There are 3.5 million jobs would vanish.

Retail 10

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

If these events occur, they would severely disrupt multinationals’ market strategies, supply chains, and exchange-rate assumptions. He pledges to reverse reforms that improved labor-market flexibility and private-sector participation in formerly protected industries like energy.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt. Big firms face different incentives, for a few reasons.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11