Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

The tech media is leaping on every bit of information that can be inferred from the Apple supply chain about the potential specs of the phone (for the record we are expecting Apple to introduce a big screen brother to the current phone and produce it in record numbers ).

Creativity 13

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 13

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?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

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. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Nobody wants to be in the position of the U.S.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

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. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Nobody wants to be in the position of the U.S.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Will robo-advisors disrupt corporate capital allocation the same way they have personal capital allocation? will grow to U.S. $5 ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. So let’s look at that research by the Harris Interactive team.

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. For example, adjusting supply chains can take up to nine months or longer depending on internal and external constraints. It is possible that we won’t have perfect information by April 2019. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector. The digital nature of the ledger means that blockchain transactions can be tied to computational logic and in essence programmed.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms. At the same time that data mirrors and scoring have emerged in the corporate world, capital markets are becoming increasingly interested in the analysis of alternative data sets.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Burt studied managers in the supply chain of Raytheon, the large electronics company and military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts, he discovered that the company had no trouble coming up with good ideas but considerable difficulty turn­ing these ideas into reality. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. We have seen the market penalize that approach.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

To make everybody happy, to serve every need, to hedge every bet, many CEOs spread resources around democratically as their companies grow — and they lose the spikiness on the cost sheet that is the telltale sign not of profligacy but of focus. I want my supply chain team fighting to rationalize, to look for scale benefits.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 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.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm. It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 9