Strategy Driven
APRIL 24, 2024
One effective strategy is to combine smaller shipments destined for similar locations into one LTL shipment, which leads to better freight rates due to economies of scale. The LTL sector will remain crucial in the global supply chain machinery. Such efficiencies translate to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea. Asia-Pacific: China Sea Flashpoints Could Obstruct the Global Supply Chain.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Those disruptors are right around the corner.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2012
To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
In 1998, Mo was running a highly profitable and stable engineering firm serving European mobile operators. He sold that company to do what no European operator would (though he begged them): Start an African cell phone company. He recently announced the next two growth markets for sizeable investment by his group are Iraq and Myanmar.
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