Global Supply Chains - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

that globalization has led corporations to outsource too much of their work and, more important, their intellectual capital. This has created a worldwide level of interdependency that increasingly threatens to disrupt View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Asia Pacific - Global

Kong Monetary Authority, alongside panels on AI, global supply chains, and education. Speakers included HBS alumni such as Dr. Victor Fung (PHD 1971), Dr. John Quelch (DBA 1977), Mr. Sebastian Man (MBA... View Details

17 Oct 2023
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Case Study: How Should We Diversify Our Supply Chain?

March 2019
Teaching Note

Zespri Grows

By: David E. Bell and John Masko

Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-047. View Details

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October 21, 2022
Article

Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping

By: Willy C. Shih

Ships that transport goods across oceans are collectively a major generator of greenhouse gases. Rules from the International Maritime Organization and the European Union aimed at curbing these emission promise to make transoceanic and regional shipping more expensive... View Details

Keywords: Shipping; Decarbonization; Environmental Regulation; Supply Chain; Disruption; Shipping Industry; Atlantic Ocean; Oceania; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Managing Global Supply Chains There are fundamental differences between supply chains and View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

01 Mar 2009
News

Gazprom Goes Global

A Russian Giant Grows, Despite a Bad Rap THE BIG CHILL: Russia and Ukraine’s gas wars give Europe the shivers. In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia’s energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

October 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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Global Unichip Corporation (A)

By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien

Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a design services company that acts as a front-end to TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies, and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to... View Details

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Selecting the Right Growth Metrics: Fewer but Better

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Keywords: Supply Chains; Big Data; Corporations; Franchising; Performance Metrics; Analytics and Data Science

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Global Climate Change

to an information request sent by CDP on behalf of its signatory investors. Datasets include Climate Change Data, Supply Chain Data, Water Data, Forests Data, and CDP Scores Data. Data, documentation and... View Details

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 2002
Background Note

Local Institutions and Global Strategy

By: Tarun Khanna

Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details

Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning

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Even as the demand for managerial skills continues to grow, executive education worldwide has entered a period of disruption caused by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication. The current offerings of many executive education program providers... View Details

2003
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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Ownership; Taxation; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Economies and Regions

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21 Oct 2022
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Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping

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By: Michael W. Toffel

My research examines how companies manage environmental issues, occupational safety, and working conditions in global supply chains. More recently, I have also begun researching the drivers and implications of CEO activism, where organizational leaders speak out on... View Details

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Corporate transparency and information disclosure strategies

By: Michael W. Toffel

This research focuses on transparency and information disclosure strategies, a topic of growing importance in environmental sustainability, corporate strategy, stakeholder relations, and public policy. My prior research in this area explored why... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure; Environment; Environmental Performance; Regulation; Supply Chain; Environmental Sustainability; United States