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Evolution of firm structure in vertical specialized technology supply chains
By: Willy C. Shih
The global market in many everyday products has been transformed by the internationalization of production. In many industries, semiconductors and electronic products in particular, a sequential mode of production has evolved in which goods are produced... View Details
- 2000
- Book
From Logistics to Supply Chain Management
By: Claudio Ferrozzi and R. D. Shapiro
Keywords: Supply Chain Management
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
To err is human, but most research on supply chain management doesn't take psychological, functional, incentive-related, and other biases into account. HBS professors Rogelio... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Supply Chain Management Course Number 2108 Associate Professor Kris Ferreira Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper/Project Due to significant overlap... View Details
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Harvard Business Analytics Program: Operations and Supply Chain Management
By: Dennis Campbell
Digital technologies and data analytics are radically changing the operating model of an organization and how it connects to its broader supply chain and ecosystem. This course emphasizes managing product availability, especially in a context of rapid product... View Details
- 22 Nov 2021
- News
Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain
- May 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Background Note
Responsibilities in the Supply Chain
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Companies are increasingly called upon to take responsibility for what occurs in their supply chains. One particular area of debate is a company’s responsibility for working conditions in supplier factories. This note provides a framework for managers to grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Working Conditions; Safety; Corporate Accountability
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Responsibilities in the Supply Chain." Harvard Business School Background Note 319-114, May 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
competitive advantage.EE: How is Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective unique from other supply chain programs offered in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Measuring and Managing Risk in the Supply Chain
Understanding risk factors associated with supply chain decisions and how to appropriately model and quantify those factors. View Details
- April 3, 2020
- Article
How Hospitals Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages as Demand Surges
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun and Thomas C. Tsai
The best practices in supply chain and operations management can help health care providers cope with the surge in patients and the supply shortages. They will help them create a comprehensive strategy aimed at both the demand- and supply-side roots of the problem. The... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Management; Strategy
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun, and Thomas C. Tsai. "How Hospitals Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages as Demand Surges." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 3, 2020).
- April 2000
- Background Note
Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman
Introduces students to the basics of principal-agency theory as it applies to supply chains. Operational problems in supply chains can often be traced to incentive issues. Students and managers lack frameworks to analyze incentive problems in supply chains. This note... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Motivation and Incentives; Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Agency Theory
Narayanan, V.G., and Ananth Raman. "Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-110, April 2000.
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
Monitoring global supply chains
- 27 Mar 2015
- Conference Presentation
Managing Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Toffel, Michael W. "Managing Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains." Paper presented at the Ethical Sourcing Forum, March 27, 2015.
- 4 Apr 2013
- Conference Presentation
Greening Supply Chains
Toffel, Michael W. "Greening Supply Chains." Paper presented at the Green Growth Knowledge Platform Annual Conference, Global Green Growth Institute, Paris, France, April 4, 2013.
- 19 Mar 2015
- Talk
Managing Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains
- 6 Mar 2015
- Talk
Managing Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Toffel, Michael W. "Managing Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains." Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), March 6, 2015.
- May 2001
- Article
The Achilles Heel of Supply Chain Management
By: Ananth Raman, Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton
Raman, Ananth, Nicole DeHoratius, and Zeynep Ton. "The Achilles Heel of Supply Chain Management." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 5 (May 2001): 136–152.
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
research rethinks what academics and practitioners have simply called the supply chain—a loose federation of individual suppliers that feed companies with the goods and services necessary to create products for consumers and businesses.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
instability in Third World countries, and last year's shutdown of West Coast shipping docks—have awakened managers as never before to supply chain risks, some of which had been... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer