Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. At many of the largest companies, in industries like aerospace and technology, limited budgets are not an obstacle. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. As research we’ve conducted across industry and academia shows, companies have an unprecedented opportunity to tap ongoing advances in AI and machine learning research to reinvent business processes.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. Proprietary research A.T.

Automotive 28

Automotive Sales Software Apparel 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%).

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 36

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the risks vary considerably between industries.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. What is our company great at doing?

Management 28

Management Apparel Industry Company 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

.” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Industrial Revolution.” In a wonderful bit of symbolism, it is located in the historic Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass.,

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Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 32

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Across industries and countries, effective principles share three characteristics. One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. This is especially needed in organizations that have been geared for functional excellence everywhere.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Create incentives.

Company 28

Company Apparel Retail Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. You are likely to discover, along the way, that you lack the capabilities you need, and must develop them from scratch.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world. The intense competition on pricing that pervades many industries makes consumer perception more important than ever. The experience of a European discount apparel retailer illustrates the power of a disciplined price-perception program.

Retail 49

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 49

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

To develop a BDN, you work backwards, or right to left, from the agreed investment objectives and the expected benefits, and map the required changes to structures, processes, work practices, and how staff would need to work through to the new technology necessary to enable and sustain those changes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

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. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Industries. Research & Development.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates. However, the key takeaway is that good quality material for consulting interview prep will be perfectly well-suited to preparing you to face case interviews in other industries as well. Why are case interviews so similar across industries?

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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Benchmarking Methodologies Apparel Company 31

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.

Education 28

Education Enterprise Productivity Examples 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

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.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. “NASCAR is unique for the loyalty of its fans and the way that the entire sport comes together once a week,” says Nick Franza, Manager, Technology Integration and Development at NASCAR.

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Sports Industry Data Media 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

According to a global survey of 700 executives across a variety of industries conducted by Strategy&, the strategy consulting division of PwC, only 8% of company leaders were said to excel at both strategy and execution. We intuitively knew that there must be leaders that span these areas, but in fact, few do. It just does not work.”

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& How To 54

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

” Little did they know that the business they founded, Vineyard Vines, would become a darling of the fashion industry and a household brand name around the country. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins.

Retail 29

Retail Engineering Apparel Data 29

Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

In the industry, this is called an “air check.” They specialize in creating custom apparel for fundraising campaigns. This could include any specialized knowledge, such as photography or personal development. It will detail the dates you will publish the promotion, how much the sponsor will pay, and the payment due date.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

We also found that industry matters. Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican.

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Survey Healthcare 28