Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Now in its second year , the initiative’s goal is to create a world where no woman dies from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development. Maternal mortality is an enormously complicated problem.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Games leaders have worked hard to award contracts to smaller suppliers across the country and tracked this as far down the supply chain as possible. Challenge your team to align and share goals. Procurement has been reworked in a similarly radical way. Publically back the risky moves.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

To offer a few examples – this year in our annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, we shared more information about the diversity of our global team than ever before, and we publicly stated our plans to promote diversity in our workforce and in our supply chain. Mary Hassett, CHRO, Lam Research.

Diversity 52

Diversity Agility Supply Chain Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When contaminated meat or vegetables are recalled, consumer advocates demand more transparency from food supply chains. A similar effect can happen when the goal of transparency is not only ethics but also other desired behavior. What are the business goals that transparency will help achieve?

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is the appropriate home when Human Resources wants to do a talent review or when finance wants to share a new budget process. Is your supply chain performance worrisome? After the roundtable, review ongoing projects, stopping only on issues where the team needs to weigh in. Have your margins been declining?

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.”

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Our goal, in a randomized controlled experiment at Gap, was to shift retail associates to more-stable schedules and study the business results. But the important message is that an effective stable scheduling initiative is not a simple human resources issue. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Many systems employing physicians have done so without developing a cohesive physician organization and lack standardized staffing and operational support functions, such as effective purchasing and supply chain operations, effective scheduling systems, and centralized office locations. Here’s how to do that.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8