Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. Every year, weather variability is estimated to cost $630 billion for the U.S. alone, or 3.5%

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

Consensus 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

In Billions, he is taking on Axelrod, a (corrupt) hedge fun tycoon. This show is also great for getting to grips with supply chain management as well as the basics of product design. A great insight into how the advertising industry operates combined with enough fictional drama to keep you binge watching those episodes.

Entrepreneur 51

Entrepreneur Gordon Supply Chain Advertising 51

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Changes could range from adjustments to the rules of origin for product content, and more-stringent labor standards, to the extreme of withdrawal and a return to World Trade Organization most-favored-nation tariffs. They include improving cost management or operational effectiveness in procurement, supply chain, and inventory management.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Research by Cornell University Professor Dr. Alan Hedge reinforces the connection of natural light and employee wellbeing. Dr. Hedge’s recent research study found optimization of natural light in an office significantly improves health and wellness among workers. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Call Center Hedge Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning with Criticality, they might ask, “How critical is the oil pipeline in Abuja, Nigeria, to the company’s overall operations?” The CSO would rank Criticality like this: 5 – Loss of the pipeline would stop operations. 4 – Loss would reduce operations considerably.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

But there’s more than one kind of successful organization, and there are many kinds of productive workplaces. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank. “They are 100 times better.”

Health Care 15

Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Even with the advanced capabilities of AI products such as Amazon’s Alexa, machines are rudimentary in their ability to understand the emotional tenor of a person, meeting, or organization. Emotional competence.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. Make no mistake: John Lewis and Waitrose are bold and aggressive players in their respective marketplaces, known for high-touch service and booming internet operations.

Definition 8

Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Despite a Broadway-styled launch held in Radio City Music Hall , the new product received somewhat mixed reviews. Samsung's predicament is a classic example of the new-product juggling act that every company has to perform: While trying to keep its rivals at bay, it must at the same time compete with its own existing products.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way. Unprofitable, but still promising, product lines were cut, timber stocks were reduced to a bare minimum, employee numbers were razored, and long-term development activities were curtailed. And so it goes, stakeholder by stakeholder.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Leaders need to be productively paranoid. The successful CEOs in our study displayed an odd behavior that we labeled " productive paranoia." Prior to the Oslo terrorist attack, we saw the exact opposite of productive paranoia — a leisurely attitude. As Bill Gates said, "Fear should guide you."

Management 14

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Some companies have seen "bet-the-company" manufacturing technologies replicated overseas just days or weeks after putting them into production. How do we protect intellectual property and other sensitive business information while also encouraging collaboration in product development processes? These attacks can be devastating.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to the Guardian , approximately 45% of all fruits and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, and 20% of meat and dairy products are wasted by suppliers, retailers, and consumers every year. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Most of Google’s and Facebook’s consumer products are ostensibly “free.”

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. If they're compartmentalized, the risk of crisis is much lower than if all sorts of financial products and institutions are allowed to mix together in a giant sloshfest.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This data is both financial (revenues, profits, growth) and non-financial (customer sentiment, employee engagement, marketing effectiveness, product feedback, and partner ecosystems). Companies are both operators and investors. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

They are simply trading based on their beliefs about the future value to hypothetical future users of the product in question. They are the product of human imagination, which is ruled alternatively by fear and euphoria. It has spurred the growth of an entire industry that exists only to exploit volatility: the hedge fund business.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. The decision not to shut down an uncompetitive product line or exit an unprofitable market can consume as much scarce management time and other resources as any merger. But sometimes the big decision will go horribly wrong.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. They can’t hedge, like Ford is doing.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Consider the case of director Frank Whyte (as we’ll call him): “You show a 3 percent increase in productivity,” Whyte snapped at the executive vice president of the largest division of a very successful consumer-goods company and likely CEO successor. The executive was in the middle of a routine presentation to the board. Yet it does happen.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Hedge Micromanagement Execution 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Consider the reputation damage caused by product failure at GM, or unpopular workplace practices at Walmart, or the multibillion dollar fines for fraud levied against Bank of America – which, not incidentally, came in dead last in a recent Harris Interactive reputation ranking. Products and services. Emotional appeal.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Escalating wealth driven by a bull market cannot be divorced from the atrophying of the middle class when stock repurchases and cash reserves nudge earnings per share and stock prices higher but do nothing to create employment or increase national productivity. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Many universities manage billions in research funding, but there is usually no R&D budget for their own product, namely delivering education to willing buyers. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

But does that actually lead to productivity — and, perhaps most important, to profit? Your job is to convince him to give you money to fund your retail operation, and not others in the company. Some of the best ideas come from putting two different ideas together." Then he berates you for an hour.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Advertising Hedge CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8