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- 01 Sep 2020
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Wide Angle
Courtesy Debora Spar “We’re going to start seeing many businesses wanting to bring their supply chain much closer to home in ways that will probably make goods more expensive, but hopefully will help drive employment as we replace...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the chain, seeing only the orders...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Reaching New Heights
nonprofit to help build schools and libraries in Nepal and supply them with books, the Harbus reported. With expansion into Southeast Asia and soon into Latin America and Africa, Wood’s Room to Read has established 3,600 libraries, built...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Perspectives on Success
out our annual 25th Reunion issue with a look at a sampling of classmates who, whatever their route to success, have put their skills to use with admirable style and achievement. Access articles here: A Zest to Invest—Mark E. Kingdon A Marketable Skill—Judith A. Gehrke...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
Future. "One of the biggest unknowns right now is what Saddam Hussein will be allowed to do. Most people think that his reserves are very, very large. If he were free to expand the production and export of oil, that would definitely bring down prices." View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
supply could be made up in other parts of the world? I would argue very strongly that once Saudi Arabia’s oil goes into decline the world’s oil supply has very likely peaked. The reality is that in the last...
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- 15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
analyzing the impact COVID-19 would soon have on the global supply chain.” Pallavi Menon MBA 2020 Pallavi Menon (MBA 2020) considers the course to have been the defining experience of her time at HBS. “It was a truly unique opportunity to...
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- 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
uniforms, and other urgently needed items. The actions we took enabled us to avoid the worst of most of the problems we faced. Perhaps they have some relevance to today’s worries. First, timely and accurate information was needed to manage critical View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
system responded immediately. The United States has become the swing supply in the global system, a role that used to belong to Saudi Arabia, and technological advances mean that producers can respond more quickly than ever before. That...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Tapping into more effective water technologies
demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 40 percent. "Few businesses are prepared for water scarcity and its impact upon operations and their supply chains," says Shenkar, adding that...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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A Climate Change Optimist
Verizon’s move to shift its energy use to 50 percent renewables by 2025, and supply chain programs to increase carbon sequestration through soil health initiatives with companies like Danone and Cargill: “Through photosynthesis, we can...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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A legacy of social and environmental respect
film. Both seemed in short supply when Parija was growing up poor in a tiny rural village in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Still, there was a spark. “I knew I could not change my destiny to be born there,” he says, “but I also knew...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Corruption 101
Ramanna. Economic tools of supply and demand can also be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?
When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives
critical links in many global supply chains, particularly on the upstream supply end, so the group of 12 HBS faculty members and a colleague from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied...
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- 16 Sep 2024
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Life Preserver
“There’s a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one,” says Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009). He’s spent the last decade trying to change that. In the United States alone, scientists estimate between...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation
and iron out supply chain and regulatory issues at the United States Embassy in Cameroon. “Establishing a stable supply chain is a huge challenge to making this work right now,” Ajanoh notes. “But overall,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off
ideally under the auspices and rules of the WTO. The problem is that nowadays trade wars may have unintended consequences that complicate their resolution. Global supply chains are incredibly complex. When a phone is designed in America...
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