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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

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Corporate Sustainability Efforts: Feast or Famine?

Harvard Business Review

But in the report " Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point ," MIT and BCG prove their point with a fast-rising graph of companies that recently put sustainability "on the management agenda.". It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Structuring Better Meetings

Harvard Business Review

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. But when a company needs the support of a supply chain partner, for example, it must also give the potential partner a compelling reason to back the strategy.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

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.

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