Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Unlike other clean energy sources, nuclear power is available during all weather conditions, offers price stability, and on-site long-term fuel supplies.

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Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2020

Just because the ride-along may now have to be supported by video-conferencing and other technological platforms, their usefulness is just as valid as ever. Ride-alongs should be Standard Operating Procedure, and managers should ensure that. For more information, please visit [link].

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Supply Chain Operations Video Sports 66

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

We know that we are somehow complicit in the moral chain that links our cheap clothes with collapsing factories, but we feel powerless to respond. So here are three radical suggestions for transforming the field of supply chain ethics. The truth is that the world is complicated, and supply chains are tangled and dynamic.

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Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A defining challenge for the 21st century will be providing sufficient supplies of sustainable energy to meet surging energy demands. A revolution in energy technologies is needed to ensure that the global energy supply chain meets demands while also solving the challenges of climate change.

Energy 8

Energy Policies Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Those that do look to leverage new technologies run into financial issues. Foreign-made farm technologies remain unappealing to farmers in Africa because they are cumbersome for those who control, on average, 1.6 Most of the farms are in areas with limited connectivity, making full technology integration in real time challenging.

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Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). I was wrong.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Industries will have to overcome daunting commercial barriers.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. billion to 9.8 In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Translating real-time factory and supply chain data into insights makes those factories and supply chains able to respond much faster to shifts in customer needs and external shocks. Combining deep expertise in both digital technology and industrial machines is not easy. Higher responsiveness leads to higher sales.

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Industry Supply Chain Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Two major forces are driving this clean label world: (1) technology-driven transparency about products and their supply chains, and (2) Millennials, who are regularly demanding good behavior from the companies they buy from and work for. How much of your energy comes from clean, renewable sources?

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Supply Chain Brand Metrics Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. A company is clearly more at risk if it has just one major product, service, technology, key supplier, or other core element.

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

One of my fellow speakers, Reinhard Otten from Audi, introduced a new initiative where Audi will become a trampoline for the whole renewable energy movement in Germany. Audi believes that in order for the car to be truly carbon neutral, it needs to be manufactured using only renewable energy. Easier said than done it, turns out!

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. dollar, rising fuel costs and the risks inherent in longer supply chains have many companies rethinking their sourcing strategies. Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer.

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Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

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. Your company may be grappling with a disruption from a new technology such as the “internet of things,” artificial intelligence, or cloud-based computing. And managers aren’t helping. Liane Davey.

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Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Yes, our business data and cat videos now require more energy to run than Japan or Brazil. And behind that chain lies companies like GE building turbines and engines.

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Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

based shale oil producers have improved their drilling and fracturing technology, and they can ramp up production in an appraised field in as few as six months at a small fraction of the capital investment required by their conventional rivals. Energy Information Administration. crude oil production to about 50%.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. Hence the opportunity for third-party service providers.

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Short-term Energy Long-term System 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. Without secure energy and a stable climate, we won’t be able to make meaningful progress on other challenges — like connecting the world. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

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?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. For example, the U.S. They’re not exactly legally binding.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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. And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). For example, Health Technology had an average multiple of 5.1,

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Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. There are deeper reasons behind the systematic failure of Western digital firms in China.

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

include a growing desire to locate their manufacturing near their customers so they can respond quickly and efficiently to customer needs and drive growth, while simultaneously de-risking the supply-chain. oil and gas, the country now possesses an abundance of inexpensive energy. As a corporate strategist at one U.S.

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Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8