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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background.

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There’s a Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change. Business Should Fill It

Harvard Business

Apple, which already sources renewable energy for nearly all its operations, announced that three more suppliers were committing to 100% renewable energy. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. Disclosure: I’ve done paid speaking for executives at Walmart and Apple.). ” I hope more business leaders in the U.S.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. In the U.S., days of innovation).

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