Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

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Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes, the measures managers use to guide their decisions stop making sense. Here's the upshot of that: because TV executives are encouraged to manage to that measure, they achieve better performance on paper but worse—wait for it—in reality. It's a positive externality management has decided to measure and make known.

Meyer 13

Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Remind me: why is an average investment banker worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? And if there is, how does one master — and perhaps — resolve it? Can it be resolved?

Sharpe 21

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Remind me: why is an average investment banker is worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? And if there is, how does one master — and perhaps — resolve it? Can it be resolved?

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors. This tactic even has a name: the " Monnet Method.". In fact, that was part of the plan.

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Contingency Plans Crisis Politics GDP 13