Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

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. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. New metrics and incentives may be required to make collaboration rational for local managers. Finance and IT systems have to support consistent analysis across organizational boundaries.

Agile 50

Agile Analysis Apparel Resources 50

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. Couldn’t you reach them this way?

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 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