Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. 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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. The opportunity is to remove incentives for free-riding within industries where a firm might take advantage of another firm’s efforts in addressing a social or environmental issue. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

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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?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. Suppliers that are already under tremendous pressure from the changing demands of the retail industry are probably especially leery of extending themselves with Sears. Perhaps most at risk is vendor support.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. But the role is becoming important in many other industries as well, such as creative arenas (for example, product design in retail) and communications.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. In a major U.K.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Finally, on rare occasions, you may offer a truly disruptive product or service — one that redefines your industry, as genetic engineering of plants redefined the agricultural chemicals industry and music streaming redefined recorded music.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Reshoring Index shows that for the fourth consecutive year, reshoring of manufacturing operations to the United States has once again failed to keep up with offshoring. Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Reshoring Index shows that for the fourth consecutive year, reshoring of manufacturing operations to the United States has once again failed to keep up with offshoring. Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

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. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates. Why are case interviews so similar across industries?

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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.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in their original article, “conventional planning operates on the premise that managers can extrapolate future results from a well-understood and predictable platform of past experience.” ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. . ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. With a constantly expanding field of practice areas, BTS is on its way to being a major player in the consulting industry. Industries. Industrial Equipment. Innovation.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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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.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. The lessons from the fans of Real Madrid, FOX Sports, and NASCAR are relevant across many industries, including consumer packaged goods, retail, and automotive. ” Read More from Microsoft.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

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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.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Ronald Reagan tried to protect America’s auto industry. A fairly recent example that comes to mind was when Reagan wanted to protect the American auto industry by imposing an import duty on cars made in Japan. Most of the consumer goods made in China such as apparel, shoes, toys, and hardware haven’t been made in America in decades.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain.

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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.

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