Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

They may have significant incentive to do so — they may be close to breaking a personal record or they may believe that their chance to increase their scoring statistics will make them more marketable as a player. Collaborating with other business functions is often an adjustment for sales and marketing leaders.

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Team Supply Chain White Paper Sports 307

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A streamlining of roles with a smooth supply chain and workflow created cost efficiencies, but the pandemic showed up the model’s fragility. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. Transition from designing for efficiency to designing for resilience.

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Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

These shifts will have important implications for the supply chain and profitability of U.S.-based The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. This reduces the supply of dollars, makes them more difficult to get, and pushes up their relative value. Options and hedges.

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Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. In the U.S.,

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15