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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Operations in a Connected World.

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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Of course I have. But it doesn’t help.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Adapted from.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Thus, you will spend time ingraining key concepts like the MECE principle , honing your mental math and learning fundamental economics, finance and accounting ideas.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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